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Essay
"A Dark Light in the West"
The Georgia Review (Fall 2010)
"An Intimate Geography"
Intimate encounters with landscape. Appears in the Summer 2010 Portland magazine.
"Madre de Dios"
Portland (Winter 2008). Selected to appear in Best American Essays 2009.
"A Scary Abundance of Water"
Memoir of Lopez's childhood in California's San Fernando Valley. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, 2002. ( LA Weekly, January 11-17, 2002)
Fiction
"The Trail"
Orion (Jan/Feb 2010)
Resistance
Nine interrelated stories. H.L. Davis Award for Short Fiction 2005 (Knopf 2004, Vintage 2005)
Light Action in the Caribbean
Thirteen stories, including "Stolen Horses," "The Letters of Heaven," and "The Mappist." (Knopf 2000, Vintage 2001)
Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter
Retold tales of Coyote as trickster and sage, from the traditions of Native America. (Andrews and McMeel 1978, Avon 1981)
Short story
"Hidian"
BL's short story "Hidian" appears in TriQuarterly's Issue #133.
Nonfiction
Of Wolves and Men
25th Anniversary Edition with a new Afterword by BL.
Photographs and marginalia throughout.
(Scribner 2004)
Interviews by BL
"The Leadership Imperative: An Interview with Oren Lyons by Barry Lopez"
BL talks with Oren Lyons, Orion (January/February 2007), Manoa (August 2008), and Resurgence (September/October 2008).
Interviews of BL
Interviews of BL
Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2005), Northwest Review (Spring 2006), Georgia Review (Spring 2006), and in No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez (2008)
Fiction/Nonfiction
Vintage Lopez
This collection includes five essays and an excerpt from Arctic Dreams in addition to six short stories. (Vintage 2004)
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- BL is working with David Pascoe at Nawakum Press in Santa Rosa, California, and Barry Moser on a fine press limited edition of a book called Outside. Plans are to publish the book in the summer of 2012. It will include six short stories, two each from Desert Notes, River Notes, and Field Notes, an Introduction to BL's fiction by James Warren of Washington & Lee University, and an Afterword by BL. Mr. Moser is designing the book and will illustrate it. For additional information, contact David Pascoe at david@nawakumpress.com.
- BL was the Andrew Glasgow writer-in-residence at the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina October 24-November 4. While there, BL collaborated with Paul Moxon, whose Fameorshame Press is in Mobile, Alabama. Moxon printed a limited-edition broadside of BL's very short story, "The Trail," which was originally published in Orion in early 2010.
- Earlier this year, Toby McLeod of the Sacred Land Film Project interviewed Barry for an upcoming series entitled Losing Sacred Ground. An excerpt of the interview, in which BL discusses storytelling, is currently featured on their website.
- The Association of American Geographers (AAG) has named BL the Association’s 2011 Honorary Geographer. The honor is conferred annually on a non-geographer for excellence in research, teaching, or writing on geographic topics. The award was first presented in 1998 to Stephen Jay Gould. Subsequent honorees include the writers John McPhee and Barbara Kingsolver, and economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman. The award was presented on April 15, 2011 at the AAG’s annual meeting in Seattle.
- BL was awarded the 2010 Caldera Special Recognition Award on November 5, 2010 at the Nature of Words conference in Bend, Oregon.
- On October 19, 2010, BL spoke at the McDonald Theatre in Eugene, Oregon on behalf of Peter DeFazio, the Congressional Representative for Oregon's 4th District. Mr. DeFazio was up for re-election and BL accepted an invitation to host a fund-raising evening.
Photo by Robin Holland
- The final episode of the Bill Moyers Journal, aired in April 2010, featured a conversation between Bill Moyers and Barry Lopez.
If you missed this extended show on your local public television station, you can still watch it on-line at PBS.org.
- On November 9, 2008, BL received the C.E.S. Wood Distinguished Writer Award at the 22nd Annual Oregon Book Awards in Portland, Oregon. The C.E.S. Wood Award is given to an “Oregon author in recognition of an enduring, substantial literary career.” Previous winners have included Ken Kesey and Ursula Le Guin.
- On January 26, 2007, BL received the Rev. Robert J. Griffin Award, presented to a Notre Dame graduate who has made a significant contribution to literature. He graduated cum laude from the University in 1966 with a degree in Communication Arts.
______________________- Following the publication of Home Ground, edited by BL and Debra Gwartney, BL began work with Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on an exhibit featuring the images of American landscape photographers. Entries from Home Ground will accompany many of the photographs. The show is scheduled to open in 2014.
- A book-length examination and assessment of BL's work by William E. Tydeman is nearing completion. It will include a long essay by Tydeman; the text of three extensive interviews Tydeman conducted with BL; and a complete, annotated bibliography of BL's work by Diane Warner of Texas Tech University's Special Collections Library, which holds BL's papers.
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Left to right, Juanita Pahdopony, Comanche tribal chairman Wallace Coffey, BL, Kim Winkleman, President of Comanche Nation College, and James Brink and Jon Whitmore of Texas Tech University, at the time Vice-Provost and President, respectively.
On September 9, 2007, BL and others from Texas Tech University made a formal offer of reconciliation between the University, which stands on former Comanche ground, and the Comanche Nation. The ceremony, which took place at Comanche Nation tribal headquarters at Lawton, Oklahoma marked the culmination of many months of preparation. Story and photos below.
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Barry Lopez is a corresponding editor with Manoa, a book-length literary journal published twice a year by the University of Hawai'i Press and edited by Frank Stewart. A recent issue, Where the Rivers Meet: New Writing from Australia, was guest edited by Australians Larissa Behrendt, a novelist, lawyer, and member of the Eualayai and Kammillaroi nations of northwest New South Wales, and Mark Tredinnick, a poet, essayist, and writing teacher living in Sydney, and by BL and Frank Stewart. The 184-page issue of essays, fiction, and poetry features photographs by Aboriginal photographer Ricky Maynard. In 2008, Stewart and BL edited two issues of Manoa devoted to the theme of reconciliation, Maps of Reconciliation and Gates of Reconciliation. These issues featured the work of writers from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
______________________BL serves on the advisory boards of a diverse group of organizations. Among them are Theater Grottesco in Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Mountain Lion Foundation; The Orion Society; and Reader-to-Reader, which sends books, free of charge, to the nation's neediest libraries. He recently joined the advisory boards of The North American Network of Cities of Refuge, the Sacred Land Film Project, Living with Wolves, and Portland's Literary Arts.
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Reconciliation Ceremony
story continued from photo above
Left to right, Juanita Pahdopony, Comanche tribal chairman Wallace Coffey, BL, Kim Winkleman, President of Comanche Nation College, and James Brink and Jon Whitmore of Texas Tech University, at the time Vice-Provost and President, respectively.
On September 9, 2007, the President and a Vice-Provost of Texas Tech University, together with a small group of representatives from the Texas Tech University community, including Barry Lopez and artist Richard Rowland, made a formal offer of reconciliation between the University and the Comanche Nation before representatives of the Comanche people. The unprecedented ceremony and presentation of gifts took place on ceremonial grounds at Comanche Nation tribal headquarters near Lawton, Oklahoma. It marked the official beginning of a collaborative effort between the tribe and the University to improve educational opportunities for Comanche youth and to open the entire University community to “a Comanche way of knowing.”
Projects already underway include: 1) exchange programs for faculty and students, developed according to the provisions of a Memorandum of Understanding between Comanche Nation College and the University; 2) a long-term oral history field project, intended to establish an historical record of post-contact events seen from a Comanche point of view; 3) an ethnomusicology project designed to record, collect, and archive modern and traditional Comanche music, for deposit at both the Comanche Nation Museum and at the Southwest Collection at the University; and 4) a program that will bring tribal elders to the University in Lubbock, Texas, to begin work with students in the Honors College aimed at establishing a cultural context for each species of plant collected on traditional Comanche lands and now housed in the University’s herbarium.
Comanche Indian Veteran's Association (CIVA) Color Guard.
The ceremony at Lawton began with a presentation of colors by Comanche military veterans—the American flag, the Comanche Nation flag, the Oklahoma State flag, and the flag of the Comanche Indian Veterans Association. BL and tribal chairman Wallace Coffey acted as co-masters of ceremony. Comanche drummers, singers, and dancers purified the ceremonial grounds prior to opening remarks from Chairman Coffey and by President Jon Whitmore and Vice-Provost Jim Brink. Following a statement about uniting in a common cause with the Comanche Nation, delivered by BL on behalf of the University, four members of the Comanche Indian Veterans Association were asked by Chairman Coffey to select an empty clay pot from a ceremonial table and to take up a position at one of the ceremonial grounds’ four cardinal points. BL asked four University representatives, each one holding a similar clay pitcher full of local groundwater, to join the veterans at the cardinal points.
Richard Rowland’s Llano Estacado pots.
The clay vessels, designed and built by artist Richard Rowland, were created from material that lies exposed in a narrow canyon on the eastern edge of Texas’s Llano Estacado, the site of a catastrophic loss for Comanche people. Here on September 29, 1874, more than a thousand horses stolen from the Comanche were shot and killed by troops of the Fourth United States Cavalry. BL and Richard Rowland dug clay and gathered other materials for the vessels at the site and fired them in an anagama kiln, using wood from several places in Texas and Oklahoma. The water for the ceremony was borrowed from a part of the Ogallala aquifer that lies beneath traditional Comanche country, land on which the University now stands.
During the ceremony, Comanche horses came up from nearby pastures and stood along the fence adjacent to the ceremonial grounds.
At a signal from Chairman Coffey, the singers and drummers began a song and those holding the pitchers began slowly pouring water into the pots. At the conclusion of the song, Chairman Coffey asked that the water now in the pots be poured out onto the Earth. The University presented some of the Comanche people with Pendleton blankets, the colors were struck, and everyone joined in a slow line dance, twice circling the drummers and singers. The ceremony closed with the Comanche setting up receiving lines, so that each person present might be able to shake hands with every other person.
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Updated 16 November 2011
Contents © 1966 to current, by
Barry Holstun Lopez. All Rights Reserved.
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Writers on the Air
Conversations About Books
Donna Seaman
Paul Dry Books 2005
Résistance
French edition
Actes Sud 2006
Light Action in the Caribbean
Knopf 2000
Vintage 2001
Arctic Dreams
Arabic edition
National Library, United Arab Emirates 2001
About This Life
Knopf 1998
Vintage 1999
Field Notes
Chinese edition
China One 1997
The Rediscovery of North America
Vintage 1992
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