River Road: The Anthology: Volume One: By First Names A-J

River Road: The Anthology, Volume One celebrates nine remarkable years (2014-2023) of the River Road Reading Series (RRRS) in Eugene, Oregon-a beloved monthly literary gathering that brought together some of the Pacific Northwest's most gifted poets, fiction writers, essayists, and storytellers. Edited by Amanda Powell, Dianne Dugaw, Erica Goss, and Joan Dobbie of the Emerald Literary Guild, this first volume gathers original work from contributors whose first names begin with A through J.

An abundant diversity of genres fills these pages: formal and free verse poetry, song, memoir, fiction, hybrid forms, and essay. Themes span love and loss, nature and the environment, social conscience and political outrage, queer experience, homelessness, transcendence, and the everyday.

Contributors include Oregon Book Award winner Andrea Hollander, Ruth Bantam Award winner Emmett Wheatfall, Professor Emerita Frances Payne Adler, Oregon Literary Fellow Evan Morgan Williams, and award-winning poets Eleanor Berry, Charles Goodrich, Carolyne Wright, Erica Goss, Dale Champlin, Chris Ransick, and many more distinguished Pacific Northwest voices.

Volume One contributors (A-J): A. Molotkov, Al Rempel, Alan L. Contreras, Alice Evans, Amanda Powell, Amedee Smith, Andrea Hollander, Andrew J.M. Gonzalez, Anita Sullivan, Austin Gray, Ayelet Amittay, Barbara Davis Kroon, Barbara Drake, Bill Siverly, Bruce Sedgwick, C. Steven Blue, Carl Swart, Caroline Goodwin, Carolyne Wright, Carter McKenzie, Catherine McGuire, Ce Rosenow, Cecelia Hagen, Charles Castle, Charles Goodrich, Chris Ransick, Christopher Luna, Claudia Lapp, Clemens Stark, Dale Champlin, David Rutiezer, Dianne Dugaw, DM Wallace, Edward Morin, Eleanor Berry, Emmett Wheatfall, Eric Braman, Eric Wayne Dickey, Erica Goss, Erik Muller, Evan Morgan Williams, Evan Trapp, Eve Muller, Frances Payne Adler, Frank Rossini, Gary Adams, Gary Philip Cornelius, Gary Lark, Gayatri Majumdar, Grace Beeler, Grace Richards, Harriot West, Henry Alley, Hiram Larew, Howard W. Robertson, Ingrid Wendt, J.T. Bushnell, Jacob Thomas Berns, James Otter, Janice D. Rubin, Jeff Fearnside, Jeff Staiger, Jenny Root, Joan Dobbie, Joanna Brook, Joanne W. James, John C. Morrison, John Sibley Williams, Jorah LaFleur, Jose Angel Araguz, Joy McDowell, Joyce Hurlbert Salisbury, Judith H. Montgomery, Jutta Donath.

Published by the Emerald Literary Guild Press, Eugene, Oregon. EmeraldLiteraryGuild.org

Paired with Volume 2 (authors K-Z).

The Emerald Literary Guild is a nonprofit supporting writers and readers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Proceeds benefit the Guild's literary community programs.

Joan Dobbie is President of The Emerald Literary Guild, a board member, Curator of River Road: The Anthology, and co-editor of both volumes. A poet and storyteller, she co-hosted the River Road Reading Series (RRRS) for 9 years and now co-hosts the Windfall Reading Series at the Downtown Eugene Public Library. Her poetry books include Woodstock Baby (The Unforgettables Press, 2013), The Language of Stone (Uttered Chaos Press, 2019), and Zenyatta/Joanna (Finishing Line Press, 2023). She has 2 well-grown children and 6 nearly grown grands. Find her at JoansPoetry.blogspot.com.

Erica Goss is Treasurer of The Emerald Literary Guild, a board member, Curator of River Road: The Anthology, and co-editor of both volumes. She is the author of Night Court (2017) and Landscape with Womb and Paradox (2026). She has received numerous Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net nominations, and a 2023 Best American Essay Notable. Publications include The Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Creative Nonfiction, and North Dakota Quarterly. Erica teaches, writes and edits the newsletter A Writer's Homestead.