"Strangers. That is who we are to one another. So often unaware of the passersby whose lives are as rich and complex and hopeful and tragic as our own, we look down, around; past and through. We disconnect--blind to the other while lost in the self. And yet here we are, meeting by way of words on a page, seeing--perhaps for the first time--our own lives reflected in the stories of others. And that is why we publish the 'Clackamas Literary Review'--to introduce writers and poets to their readers.
For more than twenty years, the CLR has welcomed storytellers from around the world to share experiences and emotions both universal and unique--to bring readers human stories, those that remind us just how we are the same, especially when we are different. Our work as editors is to publish such writing.
This volume shows us that the unfamiliar is only what we have not yet experienced, that when reading the stories of others we become aware, we see, we connect--we are no longer strangers."
"Strangers. That is who we are to one another. So often unaware of the passersby whose lives are as rich and complex and hopeful and tragic as our own, we look down, around; past and through. We disconnect--blind to the other while lost in the self. And yet here we are, meeting by way of words on a page, seeing--perhaps for the first time--our own lives reflected in the stories of others. And that is why we publish the 'Clackamas Literary Review'--to introduce writers and poets to their readers.
For more than twenty years, the CLR has welcomed storytellers from around the world to share experiences and emotions both universal and unique--to bring readers human stories, those that remind us just how we are the same, especially when we are different. Our work as editors is to publish such writing.
This volume shows us that the unfamiliar is only what we have not yet experienced, that when reading the stories of others we become aware, we see, we connect--we are no longer strangers."