Tag Archives: Alan Casline

Alan Casline, Watershed Poet

Posted on September 23, 2011 by admin

Where do you find your life story? In Sigmund Freud’s Oedipal conflicts? Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey? A good portion of mine made more sense after reading Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. But seated on logs for a trail break in … Continue reading →

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Trees, by William Weaver Christman

Posted on September 22, 2011 by admin

(In 1934, on the verge of turning seventy, Christman published this essay in a local literary magazine called Trails. A lifelong farmer in Duanesburg just west of Albany County, he’d always enjoyed literature; earlier in his life, he’d corresponded with … Continue reading →

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William Weaver Christman: Return of a Forgotten Poet

Posted on September 21, 2011 by admin

A century ago, the hilly rims of the Hudson Valley held farmlands and pastures spread far up their slopes, a history easily forgotten but for the stone walls still running through the woods. Born in 1865, William Weaver Christman inherited … Continue reading →

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