Scot Siegel

Scot Siegel is a city planner, educator, and author of three chapbooks and four full-length poetry collections, including Tender Currencies. Previous volumes include The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (2016) and Thousands Flee California Wildflowers (2012) from Salmon Poetry.Siegel works with Writing the Land, which pairs poets with land trusts nationwide. He received the Oregon Poetry Association Poet's Choice Award, and the late US Poet Laureate Philip Levine recognized Siegel...See more

Scot Siegel is a city planner, educator, and author of three chapbooks and four full-length poetry collections, including Tender Currencies. Previous volumes include The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (2016) and Thousands Flee California Wildflowers (2012) from Salmon Poetry.Siegel works with Writing the Land, which pairs poets with land trusts nationwide. He received the Oregon Poetry Association Poet's Choice Award, and the late US Poet Laureate Philip Levine recognized Siegel's long poem "Pages Torn From a Schoolmarm's Diary" as Finalist with Honorable Mention in Nimrod International's 2012 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize Competition.Siegel's poems appear in many journals and are part of the permanent public art installation along TriMet's Light Rail Orange Line in Portland, Oregon. He has received fellowship residencies with Playa at Summer Lake and Oregon State University's Spring Creek Project. www.scotsiegel.com See less