Bill Yake

Poet

Olympia, WA
Washington US
Email: 
yake@comcast.net
Website: 
yake325.wix.com/bill-yake-poetry

Author's Bio

Poet and scientist Bill Yake was born in Spokane, Washington. The author of the poetry collections This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain (2003) and Unfurl, Kite, and Veer (2010), his poems were also published widely in magazines and anthologies serving the environmental and literary communities. His poetry also won the Alligator Juniper Award (2003) and the James M. Snydal Prize (2004), and his poem “The Lowly, Exalted” was featured in an exhibition celebrating invertebrates in art. Yake died at the age of seventy-five on December 12, 2022.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (University of Washington Press, 2016)
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Northwind Anthology (Minotaur Press, 2005)
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Tattoos on Cedar (Washington Poets Association, 2005)
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Weathered Pages: The Poetry Pole, 1996-2005 (Blue Begonia Press, 2005)
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Under a Silver Sky: An Anthology of Pacific Northwest Poetry (Evergreen State College, 2003)
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Fresh Water: Poems for Rivers, Lakes and Stream (Pudding House Publications, 2002)
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March Hares: Best Poems from Fine Madness 1982 – 2002 (Fine Madness, 2002)
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Knowing Stones, Poems of Exotic Places (John Gordon Burke Publications, 2000)
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Grrrrr, A Collection of Poems About Bears (Arctos Press, 1999)
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Least Loved Beasts of the Really Wild West: A Tribute (Native West Press, 1997)
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Once Upon Ice, and Other Frozen Poems (Boyds Mills Press, 1997)
Books:
Waymaking by Moonlight: New and Selected Poems (Empty Bowl Press, 2020)
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Unfurl, Kite, and Veer (Radiolarian Press, 2010)
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This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain, Poems 1970-2003 (Radiolarian Press, 2004)
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(Givin’ Critters) Short Shrift (Radiolarian Press, 1996)
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Confluence (Radiolarian Press, 1995)
Chapbook:
The Lowly, Exalted and Other Poems (University of Southern Maine, 2009)
Journals:
Abbey Magazine
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Albatross
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Alligator Juniper
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Appalachia
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Artful Dodge
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Avocet
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Bellowing Ark
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Blue Light Review
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Bone & Flesh
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Calapooya Collage
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Canary River Review
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Cascade: Journal of the WA Poets Association
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Cascadia Review
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Chronogram
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Convolvulus
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Cotyledon
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Crab Creek Review
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Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts
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Duckabush Journal
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Ekleksographia
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Entelechy
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Exit 13 Magazine
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Fine Madness
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Green Tricycle
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Hazmat Review
,
Isle
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Isotope
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Jeopardy
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Kimera
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KNOCK
,
knock
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Longhouse
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Manzanita Quarterly
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Open Spaces
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Orion
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Pedestal Magazine
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Poets West
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Puerto del Sol
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Rattle
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Raven Chronicles
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Red Rock Review
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Resonance
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Runes: A Review of Poetry
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Samsara Quarterly
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Seattle Review
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Snow Monkey
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Solo Novo
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Taj Mahal Review
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Tapjoe
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Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
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The Bear Deluxe Magazine
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The Horsethief's Journal
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The Literary Bohemian
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Voices on the Wind
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White Pelican Review
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Wild Earth
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Wilderness
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Willow Springs
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Windfall
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Windfall A Journal of Poetry of Place

More Information

Born in: 
Spokane, WA
Washington
Raised in: 
Spokane, WA
Washington
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Last update: Jan 08, 2024