John R. Campbell is a writer, musician, and visual artist. His poems and essays have appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry, The Threepenny Review, North American Review, Georgia Review, The Seattle Review, Terrain, Northwest Review, and Poetry East. His book of environmental essays, Absence and Light: Meditations from the Klamath Marshes, is available from the University of Nevada Press. His novella, Mountains Drawn by Memory, is available from Amazon, as is his collection of poems, Intimate Distance.
Musically, he has worked with Avant Garage, Blind Lions, Woodman/Kellam/Campbell, Trio Bravo, and other configurations. His solo, duo, and trio albums are available at Bandcamp.
Campbell has won awards from Poets and Writers, the Utah Arts Council, the Fulbright Foundation, and others. He has taught writing and cultural studies at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, The University of Utah, and Oregon State University, where he currently teaches colloquia for the Honors College.
He works from his Hovering Horse studio in Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
johnrobcampbell@hotmail.com
Links to Additional Writings, Music, & Images:
A Long Journey Over Broken Borders
The Image of the Fish: Consciousness, Self, and Landscape
Dead West: An Existential Road Trip
Stratified Poem (Sintra/Cascais/Lisbon, Portugal) from Forma De Vida (Programa Em Teoria Da Literatura, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Forest Understory: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (essay, “Scope” featured in anthology from University of Washington Press)
Wild in the Willamette (essay, “Vision Begins" featured in field guide from Oregon State University Press)
Stories Moving Through (long poem featured in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment)
“Pornography” & “Pastoral” (poems from the Poetry magazine archives)
Sweat and Grit in My Actual Eyes (essay from the bilingual anthology Natural in Verso from Mariposa Azual, Lisbon, Portugal)
Processions 1—5 (video journal exploring landscape motion dynamics)
Ephemera West 1 (photographs from the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC)
Ephemera West 2 (photographs from the Portland Zoo, Portland, Oregon)
Ephemera West 3 (photographs from the Oregon Aquarium, Newport, Oregon)