The Earle Thompson Project aims to find and publish the work of the late genius Yakima poet, Earle Thompson (1950-2006).
If you have unpublished Earle poems or would like to contribute your knowledge about Earle, please contact us.
If you know an Earle friend "Roxie" who may have his last work (working title: "Off the Rez"), prose that was ready for publication in 2006, please ask Roxie to contact us.
If you are a past publisher of Earle's work, please search your archives and contact us. Earle was first published at age 12. He never stopped writing.
We welcome input for a poetry book format to fit Earle's lifework. Current thought is reader discovery of his poems by their time and place. You meet Earle's last work first, his insights about Seattle. Any reader asks "How can a person come see and write this?!" Earle was Native American. Earle's poems answer and your stories can help.
So far we have about 120 poems. Thank you for helping this project, which people from many places and cultures believe is important.
If you have unpublished Earle poems or would like to contribute your knowledge about Earle, please contact us.
If you know an Earle friend "Roxie" who may have his last work (working title: "Off the Rez"), prose that was ready for publication in 2006, please ask Roxie to contact us.
If you are a past publisher of Earle's work, please search your archives and contact us. Earle was first published at age 12. He never stopped writing.
We welcome input for a poetry book format to fit Earle's lifework. Current thought is reader discovery of his poems by their time and place. You meet Earle's last work first, his insights about Seattle. Any reader asks "How can a person come see and write this?!" Earle was Native American. Earle's poems answer and your stories can help.
So far we have about 120 poems. Thank you for helping this project, which people from many places and cultures believe is important.
1 comment:
earle was my friend when i was living on the streets of seattle. we engaged in lengthy and intellectual conversations in regard to daily life of experiences with other natives who also experienced an existence of survival. often times we met in a haphazard manner, that is, we'd encounter just about anywhere downtown seattle: the pike place market by the pig, other times near the convention place that was nearby his resident building, he'd suggest that we buy a case of beer at the nearest store, i.e.,bensons.
we'd be animated by bud then proceed to read his most recent material, as i am also a writer in progress- i am beyond the struggling stage, since i started writing shortly after i graduated from bellingham high school in 1967when i was eighteen, now i am sixty-four. presently, i reside at 1811 eastlake with other natives but none know earle as i have in the past. i was sitting in my room when a thought-feeling came to me in response to a memory of him.
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