Alan Casline

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He was born in Fort Johnson, New York in 1951 and attended St. Lawrence University and SUNY-Albany.  As an undergraduate at St. Lawrence University he was poetry editor of <I>Laurentian</I> (1973). He has published a number of collections of poetry and has written on watershed wisdom, folklife, natural history, sustainability, and local poetry. Beginning in 1975 in Canton, New York, he edited and published <I>Rootdrinker</I>, a long standing magazine of watershed poetics, art, and non-fiction. An early bio-regionalist, his Landsat satellite photo cover for <I>Rootdrinker </I>(1975) and his seminal and often reprinted essay “Farm as Ecology”(1977) contributed to the cultural and literary growth of bioregional and watershed groups throughout North America. He has published several volumes of poetry, including <I>Birdsfoot </I>(1985), <I>Some Late Thursday Night Poems </I>(2007) and <I>Grandfather Carp </I>(2009). His poetry appeared in the anthology <I>River of Dreams: Poems from the St. Lawrence Valley </I>(1990), edited by Albert Glover, as well as in numerous other magazines, anthologies and in varied forms electronically and in print. </div> <bR> <div> He is director of<I> Rootdrinker Institute, </I>a membership based organization, which<I> </I>promotes rediscovery of the inspirations and creative visions of earlier artists and writers of each unique watershed. His Benevolent Bird Press has published a number of collections of poetry by other writers. In addition to <I>Rootdrinker,</I> he has edited and published <I>Normanskill </I>(2007) a watershed anthology and the creative folklore anthology <I>The Annals of Perious Frink (2007).</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div>     <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Palatino" ><I>Thirty Poems</I></FONT> is a 40 page <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >hand-stitched chapbook.   $8.00</FONT></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Thirty Poems"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-19"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Thirty Poems"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-19"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Thirty Poems"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-19"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>       </div> <bR> <bR> <div>      <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>