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1. What has always impressed me about Chris Olander's poetry is how present, how kinetically alive the energies of Nature (birds, oaks, rivers, etc.) are in it and of how the words dance in the breath and sinew of it. - Kirk Lumpkin, ecology poet and performing artist author of In Deep and Co-Hearing 2. Chris is a master at using consonants. Kerouac is the master at using vowels and Chris is a master at using the alliteration of sounds---and of intonation as well. - W. Staple and G. Snyder, two poets from the NSJ ridge. 3. Chris Olander takes his poems off the page and creates poetic happenings. You're the guest of honor! His staccato talking rock vocals, finger and arm visuals of birds and joy of remembering stars and loved ones are pure pleasure to experience. - nila northSun, Chippewa-Shoshone poet, author of a snake in her mouth. 4. Writing the natural world Chris Olander cracks down to the elements, his senses, the crystal beings themselves, trees, birds, fish, bear, big cats, mountains, and his central metaphor, the river--water purls throughout, rivers, creeks, streams--these crystal beings in their motions and flow. The sacred. River Light offers us the ecopoet's gut choice, commodity and pollution versus natural reverence. His elemental writing lets us see, feel, taste the way to go. - Richard Silberg, author of The Horses: New and Selected Poems and Deconstruction of the Blues ; associate editor of Poetry Flash. 5. The beauty of your voice, celebrating such variations of texture in the language was unique, uplifting, and perfect for the erotic yet sublime states the river can evoke in us. - Gene Berson, Poet/teacher in schools throughout Northwest, author of raveling travel

"1. What has always impressed me about Chris Olander's poetry is how present, how kinetically alive the energies of Nature (birds, oaks, rivers, etc.) are in it and of how the words dance in the breath and sinew of it. - Kirk Lumpkin, ecology poet and performing artist author of ""In Deep"" and ""Co-Hearing"" 2. Chris is a master at using consonants. Kerouac is the master at using vowels and Chris is a master at using the alliteration of sounds---and of intonation as well. - W. Staple and G. Snyder, two poets from the NSJ ridge. 3. Chris Olander takes his poems off the page and creates poetic happenings. You're the guest of honor! His staccato talking rock vocals, finger and arm visuals of birds and joy of remembering stars and loved ones are pure pleasure to experience. - nila northSun, Chippewa-Shoshone poet, author of ""a snake in her mouth."" 4. Writing the natural world Chris Olander cracks down to the elements, his senses, the crystal beings themselves, trees, birds, fish, bear, big cats, mountains, and his central metaphor, the river--water purls throughout, rivers, creeks, streams--these crystal beings in their motions and flow. The sacred. River Light offers us the ecopoet's gut choice, commodity and pollution versus natural reverence. His elemental writing lets us see, feel, taste the way to go. - Richard Silberg, author of ""The Horses: New and Selected Poems"" and ""Deconstruction of the Blues""; associate editor of Poetry Flash. 5. The beauty of your voice, celebrating such variations of texture in the language was unique, uplifting, and perfect for the erotic yet sublime states the river can evoke in us. - Gene Berson, Poet/teacher in schools throughout Northwest, author of ""raveling travel"""

1. What has always impressed me about Chris Olander's poetry is how present, how kinetically alive the energies of Nature (birds, oaks, rivers, etc.) are in it and of how the words dance in the breath and sinew of it. - Kirk Lumpkin, ecology poet and performing artist author of In Deep and Co-Hearing 2. Chris is a master at using consonants. Kerouac is the master at using vowels and Chris is a master at using the alliteration of sounds---and of intonation as well. - W. Staple and G. Snyder, two poets from the NSJ ridge. 3. Chris Olander takes his poems off the page and creates poetic happenings. You're the guest of honor! His staccato talking rock vocals, finger and arm visuals of birds and joy of remembering stars and loved ones are pure pleasure to experience. - nila northSun, Chippewa-Shoshone poet, author of a snake in her mouth. 4. Writing the natural world Chris Olander cracks down to the elements, his senses, the crystal beings themselves, trees, birds, fish, bear, big cats, mountains, and his central metaphor, the river--water purls throughout, rivers, creeks, streams--these crystal beings in their motions and flow. The sacred. River Light offers us the ecopoet's gut choice, commodity and pollution versus natural reverence. His elemental writing lets us see, feel, taste the way to go. - Richard Silberg, author of The Horses: New and Selected Poems and Deconstruction of the Blues ; associate editor of Poetry Flash. 5. The beauty of your voice, celebrating such variations of texture in the language was unique, uplifting, and perfect for the erotic yet sublime states the river can evoke in us. - Gene Berson, Poet/teacher in schools throughout Northwest, author of raveling travel

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Chris Olander has worked as a Poet/Teacher with California Poets in Schools (CPITS) since 1984. He teaches and reads his work throughout California and in Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. He has been published in many anthologies, magazines and specialty publications. Olander was a founding director of Poet's Playhouse in Nevada City, 1988-99; Nevada County Poetry Series of Grass Valley, 2000-12; an organizer and featured reader for the Berkeley Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival since 2001.

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