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- With Passion and a Dash of Pink, Women Protest War, New York Times, March 9, 2003 (requires login). More on Code Pink at their website.
- Join Terry Tempest Williams and thousands of others in a grassroots effort for peace, Poets Against the War. On January 28, Sam Hamill (writer, founding editor and co-founder of Copper Canyon Press), sent an open letter to a few friends
"asking every poet to speak up for the conscience of our country and lend his or her name to our petition against this war".
Word spread like wildfire from mailbox to mailbox, and thousands of poets submitted poems or personal statements to register their opposition to the Bush administration's headlong plunge toward war in Iraq.
In doing so, they have honored a long and rich tradition of thoughtful and moral opposition by poets and other artists to senseless and murderous policies, including those of our own government.
Poets Against the War announced an International Day of Poetry Against the War on
Wednesday, March 5. Poets around the world scheduled readings
and/or discussions of poetry and protest for that day. At noon on March 5th on Capitol Hill, approximately 15,000 anti-war poems were presented to members of Congress. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) hosted the event with other members of the Progressive Caucus including Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA). The poems were presented by Pulitzer prize winner and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets W.S. Merwin, author and poet Terry Tempest Williams and founding editor of Copper
Canyon Press Sam Hamill. Read an account of this event here.
- The New York Times published an op-ed piece by Terry Tempest Williams on February 2, 2003, entitled In the Shadow of Extinction, about the plight of the prairie dog (NY Times website requires login). On January 21, 2003, a coalition of six conservation groups, plus author Terry Tempest Williams, formally petitioned the Bureau of Land Management to designate key white-tailed prairie dog colonies as Areas of Critical Environmental Concern. On July 11, 2002 -- The Center for Native Ecosystems led a coalition of seven conservation groups and author Terry Tempest Williams in petitioning the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the white-tailed prairie dog under the Endangered Species Act. White-tailed prairie dogs form an indispensible part of the "Sagebrush Sea" of central and western Wyoming, northwestern
Colorado and northeastern Utah. There is extensive background information and photos on the Center for Native Ecosystems website. Also, read this article in the Billings Gazette, entitled
"Groups petition for protection of white-tailed prairie dog," by Clair Johnson, July 12, 2002. The current issue of Creative Nonfiction, the journal devoted exclusively to the
nonfiction genre, is Issue 19: Diversity Dialogues, which contains an essay by Terry Tempest Williams, entitled "Prayer Dogs."
- Read an interview with Terry Tempest Williams entitled "Testimony, Refuge, and the Sense of Place - A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams," by David Thomas Sumner, in the current issue of Weber Studies (Volume 19.3, Spring/Summer 2003).
- "Patriotism and the American Land," a collection of three essays by writers Richard Nelson, Barry Lopez, and Terry Tempest Williams, was released on September 11, 2002 by the Orion Society. Read a review by Tom Leskiw on H-NILAS,
a moderated internet discussion forum sponsored by the Nature in Legend and Story Society (NILAS).
- "September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond," edited by William Heyen, was published by Etruscan Press in July, 2002. This anthology contains the first, passionate reactions of 125 fiction writers, poets, and essayists.
- "Chewing Up a Fragile Land" is an opinion piece in the New York Times by Terry Tempest Williams, February 21, 2002, about what the Bush administration energy plan is doing to our fragile wilderness areas in southern Utah.
Another version of this article, entitled "Bearing Witness," with accompanying photos, appears on the Orion Society's website. Find out more about the Bush energy plan and attempts to protect fragile wilderness areas in Utah, on the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance website.
Comprehensive information and background about the threat to America's wild lands by oil development is also provided by The Wilderness Society. The July/August, 2002, issue of Mother Jones has an article entitled "Open Season on Open Space," by Bob Burtman, which details the Bush administration's aggressive move to
drill oil and gas on public lands across the West. Mother Jones also posted a web-exclusive guide to ten Western
wilderness areas currently threatened by oil and gas exploration, with maps, an analysis of the threats, and information on activist organizations working to protect the area.
- "Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony," a book published by Milkweed Editions in response to the call for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; on the World As Home site.
- Statement of Terry Tempest Williams, Naturalist-in-Residence Utah Museum of Natural history, Salt Lake City, Utah, before the
Senate Subcommittee on Forest & Public Lands Management regarding the Utah Public Lands Management Act of 1995.
Washington, D.C. July 13, 1995.
- Statement by Terry Tempest Williams, against Legacy Highway,
Utahns for Better Transportation, Jan 2001.
Same statement on "Stop Legacy Highway" site.
- Letter
of solidarity by Terry Tempest Williams in Fall 1995 SUWA newsletter.
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Affiliations |
- Terry Tempest Wiliams is on the board of the Castle Rock Collaboration, which is a branch of Utah Open Lands.
- Terry Tempest Williams is on the Board of Trustees of Round River Conservation Studies. Round River Conservation Studies is an ecologically-oriented research
and education organization dedicated to the formulation and accomplishment of bioregionally based conservation strategies for the preservation and
restoration of wild places.
- Terry Tempest Williams is an Advisor to the Pew Wilderness Center.
- Terry Tempest Williams is on the Advisory Board for
The Mesa Refuge, a Northern California retreat center for writers addressing strategies for restructuring the economy and its relationship to the natural world.
The Mesa Refuge is coordinated by The Common Counsel Foundation, Collaborative Grantmaking for Social Change.
- Terry Tempest Williams is an Editorial Advisor for Wild Earth, the Journal of Wildlands Recovery and Protection.
- She has served on the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society and was a member of the western team for the President's Council for Sustainable Development.
- She is currently on the advisory board of the National Parks Conservation Association, The Nature Conservancy, and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.
- Terry Tempest Williams is a Board of Advisors member of Women's Voices for the Earth.
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Awards and Honors |
Terry Tempest Williams was inducted to the Rachel Carson Honor Roll and has received the National Wildlife Federation's
Conservation Award for Special Achievement.
The Utne Reader named Terry Tempest Williams as one of their "Utne 100 Visionaries," in their words, "a person who
could change your life."
She has been a fellow for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997) and received a Lannan Literary
Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction (1993).
In 1999, Ms. Williams received "The Spirit of the West" award from the Mountain-Plains Booksellers Association for
Special Literary Achievement. She has also been recognized by the Mormon Arts & Letters Association and honored by
Physicians for Social Responsibility for "distinguished contributions in literature, ecology, and advocacy for an
environmentally sustainable world."
Terry Tempest Williams was the Shirley Sutton Thomas Visiting Professor of English at the
University of Utah in 1999.
In 2000, Terry Tempest Williams visited the Center for the American West as a Distinguished Lecturer and received the Lila
Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award.
May 2, 2003, Terry Tempest Williams received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from the University of Utah.
In 2004, Terry Tempest Williams became the first Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Studies, a three-year appointment conferred by the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center, in conjunction with the University of Utah, College of Humanities. In this capacity, she will facilitate a series of naturalist lectures, similar to Henry DavidThoreau's 19th century Lyceum Lectures, and will teach an annual course in nature and writing within the setting of Utah's red rock country.
In May, 2004, Terry Tempest Williams was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC).
Terry Tempest Williams was the recipient of the 2005 Wallace Stegner Award by the Center for the American West.
Named for one of the founders of The Wilderness Society, the Robert Marshall Award is The Wilderness Society’s highest honor given to a private citizen. In September 2006 it was awarded to Terry Tempest Williams. In 2006, Terry Tempest Williams also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association.
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