{"id":7799,"date":"2022-05-13T06:21:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:12:07","slug":"a-new-poet-for-oregon-lee-meier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/a-new-poet-for-oregon-lee-meier\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Poet for Oregon\u2014Lee Meier"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My good friend and Oregon legend Lee Meier has published an extraordinary new collection of poems called <em>Circus Machinery<\/em>. It&#8217;s his first book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I urge everyone out there who cares about Oregon literature and who wants to support local poets and writers to check out this book. The link to purchase a print edition is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Circus Machinery\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1165\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_t25n4hMgrUdOod&#038;asin=B09X3FJGK2&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee and I go back to 2002 when I discovered that back in 1970, he was one of the four young people who approached Governor McCall to ask for a site to hold a rock festival outside of Portland with the idea of a \u201cdefusing mechanism (McCall&#8217;s words) to avoid violence downtown during the national convention of the American Legion. This was right after the invasion of Cambodia and Kent State and well, you know the rest\u2014a terrible time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee was 20 years in 1970, and his successful and far out effort helped elect McCall to a second term and change the course of modern Oregon history for the better. When I was writing my Vortex book, Lee was beyond generous and sat with me for a long interview and gave me the use of all the incredible photos he took at Vortex. His generosity was one of the more inspiring moments of my creative life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These poems were written over the span of his adult life and take the reader on an unforgettable journey through Lee&#8217;s life and the landscapes that enchanted him. I know I will be reading these poems again and again, for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get the book. Support a new Oregon poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend and Oregon legend Lee Meier has published an extraordinary new collection of poems called Circus Machinery. It&#8217;s his first book. I urge everyone out there who cares about Oregon literature and who wants to support local poets and writers to check out this book. The link to purchase a print edition is: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[584,801,802,877],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","tag-lee-meier","tag-oregon-poet","tag-oregon-poetry","tag-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10939,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/10939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}