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Voices From The Underground

by James Bowers

PROLOGUE

I am sitting in my chair in the cabin built by my own hands, looking out at the stream flowing through my property, with my feet elevated, piles of newspapers and my dog at my side. It is not that I am lazy. I’m retired, and retirement means not doing whatever I do not care to do, not talking with people I do not find interesting, not being anything other than what I want to be. It is the ultimate in freedom, just to be myself: no more games to play, no role to tell me how I ought to act, only silence and intuition. But that also involves getting to know who I really am. Memories from the past float to the surface, long-forgotten, painful, surprising. I am changing in unexpected ways: death and rebirth in my late sixties, as if one can start over again at that age. I am becoming more reclusive, more observant, delighted by the vast panorama of inward experience.

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Bearlodge Writers

Books by Bearlodge Writers have been published by:

Avon ♦ Doubleday ♦ Feathermoon Press ♦ Forge/St. Martins ♦ Fulcrum ♦ Houghton Mifflin ♦ Many Kites Press ♦ Müller Rüschlikon (Switzerland) ♦ Raven Creek Press ♦ Howard W. Sams & Co. ♦ Que Corporation ♦ Osborne/McGraw-Hill ♦ Jamsa Press ♦ IDG Books ♦ Prima Publishing ♦ Pronghorn Press

Prose and poetry by Bearlodge Writers have been published in:

Alaska Native  ♦  Archaeology ♦ Art of the West  ♦ Arthritis Today ♦ Bittersweet ♦ Bow Hunter ♦ Bugle ♦ Caldera ♦ Canada Rides (Canada)♦ Cats Magazine ♦ Christian Science Monitor ♦ Chrysalis ♦ Dakota ♦  Denominational magazines ♦ Discovery ♦ Farm Journal ♦ Farm Woman News ♦ Feelings ♦ FencePost ♦ Goldmine ♦ Grit ♦ Guideposts ♦ Highlights for Children ♦ Horse of Course ♦  I Love Cats ♦ Journal of Range Management ♦ Ladybugs ♦ Library Journal ♦ Luminarios ♦ Marriage Partnership ♦ Messages from the Heart ♦ My Weekly (Scotland) ♦ National Doll World ♦ National Wildlife ♦ Newsweek ♦    Norsk Ukeblad (Norway) ♦ Northern Lights ♦ Old West ♦ Panorama ♦  Parabola ♦ Pennsylvania Magazine ♦ Reader’s Digest ♦ Science World ♦ Serendipity ♦ Sheep Industry News ♦ Shore Christmas Anthology ♦  Smithsonian ♦ Spirit and Life ♦ Standard ♦ Successful Farming ♦  Sunshine Magazine ♦ Susquehanna Life ♦ True West ♦ Westering ♦ Western Byways ♦ WWA Roundup ♦ Woman’s World ♦ Wyoming History Journal ♦ Wyoming Horizons ♦ Wyoming Hub of the Wheel ♦ Wyoming Livestock Roundup ♦ Wyoming Magazine ♦ Wyoming Woolgrower ♦ WREN (Wyo. Rural Elec. News) ♦

Works by Bearlodge Writers have appeared in anthologies including:

• Foreign Ground: travelers’ tales, Pronghorn Press, 2005
• Whispers Down Wyoming Wind, WyoPoets, 2005
• Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West, Houghton Mifflin, 2004
• Hard Ground IV, Pronghorn Press, 2003
• Ranching West of the 100th Meridian: Culture, Ecology, and Economics, Island Press, 2002
• Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West, Houghton Mifflin, 2001
• Cowgirl Poetry, Gibbs-Smith, 2001
• Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West Houghton Mifflin, 1997
• Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon Northland, 1998
• Chicken Soup for the Soul
• The Stories That Shape Us, Norton, 1995
• Seasons of Wyoming, WyoPoets, 2002
• Flint-Edged Refrains, WyoPoets, 2000
• Sky Blue, Grass Green, Northwoods Press
• Trail Dust, Wyoming Agricultural Leadership Council, 2000
• Wyoming Journeys, WyoPoets, 1995
• If You Would Love Wyoming, WyoPoets, 1993
• Wyoming Prairies, Peaks, and Skies, WyoPoets, 1998
• Windsingers, Wyoming Writers, Inc., 1984
• Visions of Wyoming, Casper Star-Tribune, 1993
• Western Horse Tales, Republic of Texas Press, 1994
• Tumblewords, University of Nevada Press, 1995
• Owen Wister Review, University of Wyoming, 2006, 2007
• Wyoming Fence Lines, Wyoming Humanities Council, 2007
• Wyoming Paintbrush, WyoPoets, 2007
• Black Dragon, White Dragon, Ricasso Press, 2007

Members of Bearlodge Writers have:

• Given hundreds of workshops, readings, presentations, and signings in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada
• Given radio and television presentations, interviews, and readings throughout the Rocky Mountain area
• Been keynote speakers and panelists
• Conducted writing retreats in Wyoming, South Dakota, the southwest, and British Columbia
• Worked in the schools at all grade levels
• Juried writing competitions for Wyoming Arts Council, Young Authors, and other organizations
• Served as faculty for Wyoming Writers, Western Writers of America, Women Writing the West, and other conferences
• Juried entries for the National Park Service, Devils Tower National Monument Residency annual competition
• Sponsored writing workshops bringing in outside writers

Awards and honors won by Bearlodge Writers include:

• Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award for Literature
• Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowships
• Finalist, Colorado Book Awards
• Finalist, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Non-fiction Award
• Western Writers of America Spur Award
• Finalist, Western Writers of America Spur Award
• International Reading Association and Children’s Book Council Children’s Choice Book
• Nellje Blanchan Memorial Award
• Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award

Workshops

Bearlodge Writers give group workshops for writers and teachers of writing. Workshops may include panels or roundtables on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s writing, memoir writing, journaling, creative nonfiction, the art of critique, technical writing, essays, or journalism, and can be tailored to individual interests. A demonstration critique session on works-in-progress of Bearlodge Writers and selected participants is a popular feature of Bearlodge Writers workshops. For more information, write Bearlodge Writers, Box 204, Sundance, Wyoming 82729, or e-mail Bearlodge Workshops.