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Tricia Knoll is a widely published Oregon poet. Each year she farmsits at Broadfork Farm, a small organic farm in Trout Lake, Washington. These poems herald her love of gardening, her compassion for the fur-covered and feather-clad beings that call the farm home. In a bucolic setting next to the rushing Salmon River and below the glaciers of Mt. Adams, her record of life on the farm affirms both the humor and zest of living as well as the realization that the lives of farm animals are also witness to impermanence. At a time of environmental change, Knoll’s poetry weighs the role of the small family-owned farm against the brutal realities of the world beyond the farm. She finds gratitude and stillness in the simple gifts of sun, wind, water, and soil. More Info at http://broadforkfarm.thepoetrybox.com. Tricia Knoll is an Oregon poet who grew up in an affluent suburb of Chicago. She earned degrees in literature from Stanford University (BA) and Yale University (MAT). For decades she worked in communications for the City of Portland. Starting in 2014, she delved into current discussions on race relations in the United States to examine the influences of ancestry, education, childhood experiences and more on her understanding of her own white privilege and how she can work to change the influences of her background. Many of the poems in How I Learned to Be White have appeared in anthologies or journals related to racial justice. She spent three years on Portland’s Human Rights Commission with an intense interest in people who were homeless and people with disabilities. She has a minor speech disability.
