Alicia lives in Portland with her husband and their two small children.

She has played bluegrass fiddle across Central America and Kuwait as a cultural ambassador for the US State Department and toured for eight years as the violinist in Brooklyn-based klezmer-punk band, Golem. A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, her one-woman chamber-rock opera about the intersection of spirituality and finance, was named one of Portland’s five best theater performances of 2014 by the Willamette Week. As a musician, Alicia tours internationally with her band, Girls in Trouble-an indie-folk song cycle about the complicated lives of Biblical women-with whom she has released three albums. Her poems appear in the Boston Review, 6×6, and Ploughshares. Her manuscript, Divinity School, won the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and is forthcoming from APR/Copper Canyon in September 2015. Her latest book, Fracas & Asylum, is just out from David Robert Books, 2013.Visit her website at Alicia Jo RabinsĪ poet, composer, performer, and Torah scholar. Early California is the subject of Swimming the Eel, published by David Robert Books in 2011. The drama of family life informs her earlier work, The Book of Gretel, published in 2010 by Finishing Line Press. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in many small magazines and newspapers, including West Branch, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rosebud, Eclipse, Nimrod, Poetry Flash and elsewhere. In her twenties, she lived in Paris, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., where she made a living as a freelance editor and writer for New Republic Books, the National Endowment, and the National Geographic Society. Thanks to the National Highway Act and other progressive developments of the 1950s, she attended Mills College and the University of Michigan.

The listing continues to expand as we compile the information.Ĭlick on letter corresponding to last name: A B C D | E F G HĪ fifth generation Californian, Zara Raab writes from the remote, rural world of her childhood in Mendocino and on the Lost Coast, where her parents attended one room schools. The list also includes those who have died. Links to individual web sites are highlighted. Each poet, including the Native American and Asian American, has his or her own style and distinctive voice. The associations with the environment and other cultures, however, are more contemplative or subconscious, so there is not, as one might expect, a 'regional' style of poetry. Their poetry often reveals a spiritual connection to the Native American and Asian cultures. They recognize humanity's ambivalent relationship with the region and are witnesses to the effects of environmental destruction and unchecked urbanization. Poets living and writing in the Northwest are often influenced by the expansive landscape, the water, and the weather (rain, usually). Like so many of us living in the Pacific Northwest, many poets, especially those of an earlier generation, While many of the poets have achieved recognition, PoetsWest also acknowledges the strengths and special gifts of other poets. It is impossible to sex Goldfish when they are young and not in breeding season, but generally the male is smaller and more slender than the female.The PoetsWest Directory includes biographical profiles of well known Northwest poets and those not well enough known. Seen from above, a female will have a fatter appearance when she is carrying eggs. Gender: During the breeding season, the male has white prickles, called breeding tubercles, on its gill covers and head. To spawn them in the aquarium, you will need to mimic the conditions found in nature. The only time Goldfish will spawn in the wild is when spring arrives. They can be bred in groups as small as five individuals, but they are very social animals and likely to breed in larger groups as well. Tank Mate Compatibility: Other goldfish and peaceful fish.īreeding & Spawning: Oranda Goldfish are egg layers that spawn readily in the right conditions.

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Scientific Name: Carassius auratus auratus

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