MARCH 2009 * BIG POWWOW * ROOTDRINKER NUMBER 17

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50 pages * small press publication *
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Check or money order to: Rootdrinker Institute
P.O. Box 522
Delmar, NY 12054


Alan Casline and Stephen Lewandowski are holding a big powwow for

Rootdrinker Magazine #17. Beginning in 1975 in Canton, New York,

Alan Casline’s Rootdrinker is a long standing magazine of watershed

poetics, folklife, natural history, art, and photography. The magazine’s

legendary tradition is continued with the 2009 publication of BIG

POWWOW. Co-edited by environmental leader and poet Stephen

Lewandowski, the issue draws from work by writers and poets from

throughout the Northeast, many of them early supporters of bio-regional

politics and local culture. The issue presents work concerned with myth

and story, creation of family myth, myth of a shared community, nation

and world.Poems wise in their craft by poets who question both the

representations of native culture and that of topical reality. BIG

POWWOW finds beauty in native sensibilities and rural life.

BIG POWWOW finds wonder in curiosity about animal and human

society and succeeds in celebrating the moment using a confluence of

ideas and visions to praise the natural world.

I see this as a “pebble in the pond” style publication. One small

wave will generate a larger wave. Contributors each given an

opportunity to speak and others the opportunity to hear.
— Alan Casline

Here’s what interests me and might expand on the Powwow
Theme: HOW do we become the equivalents of, if not the natives
of this place. So it’s Powwow Now/How.

— Stephen Lewandowski

The list of materials found in BIG POWWOW includes:

Billy Finnegan

[Waiting for the Train in Figueres]

Mark O'Brien

What if "The Beave" were an Ulster-Scot?

Albert Glover

Basics
Mistaken Identity

Alan Casline Not What You Know...
Briefing for the Poem Not What You Know...
Around a Public House Table

Dennis Sullivan

Civil Seer

Walt Franklin

The Stones Deliver a Sermon on the Duty of Staying Home
Headwaters Mountain, 1985

Alifar Skebe

Mockingbird Song

Joseph Bruchac

Between Two Thunders
On Padre Island, Texas

Helen Ruggieri

Rock City Hill Exercises

Gary Lawless

Two for the Po
I still talk to the animals

Stephen Lewandowski

Early Limnology
Not Alone

John Roche

Joe the Poet
To the Red Fox

Barbara Hatch Vink

How Magnolias Smell

Dale Hobson

Half-life

Karin Spitfire

Be Belfastian: A Triptych

Michael Czarnecki

Rediscovery


Contact information for Co-editors:

Stephen Lewandowski e-mail: stachu 14512@yahoo.com
Alan Casline e-mail: acasline@aol.com

Mailing: Rootdrinker Institute
P.O. Box 522
Delmar, NY 1205