"TumbleWords, an anthology of works by 72 western writers, is the result of a Western States Arts Federation project developed to bring writers and their audiences together in direct and unforgettable ways. From 1992 to 1994 poets, novelists, short-story writers, and essayists from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming gave readings and workshops in places where audiences have little, if any, access to contemporary writers. This anthology is a permanent record of the words spoken at those first TumbleWords readings."--BOOK JACKET.

"TumbleWords ... was conceived as a community-based project which would bring writers to read their works for local audiences"--P. xv.

Developed by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) in 1991.

Includes index.

Temporary Meaning Signal Deaths / James Cervantes Joe Spinner The House Next Door Prison School Reckoning / Jeanne Clark Perfect Time Winter of the Hawk / William Clipman The Rez / Dennis Hickman All My Relations / Christopher McIlroy The Summer Dances Zapatos / Rita Maria Magdaleno Salome Learning Spanish A Resonance of Emerald: Hummers in the Desert / Paul Morris This Is My Voice / Jonathan Penner Risking the Reach / Jean Rukkila Bill of Sale / Dean Stover Jack Duluoz Hangs This Note on Maggie Cassidy's Fridge and Heads Out for Mexico / John Sullivan Walker and Other Tribes / Lynne Weinberg-Hill In the Clearing / Chip Bissell Violence in Los Barrios / Ramon Del Castillo Ode a Las Gatas / Lorna Dee Cervantes Kit From "Truck Trip with Reed" / Jack Collom El Barrio La Llorona / Abelardo Delgado La Mujer Azteca / Margie Domingo After the Earthquake / Patricia Dubrava The Day Ricardo Falcon Died / Anthony J. Garcia splendour / Rachel E. Harding The Secret Life of School / Judith Jerome The Upwardly Mobile Professionals / Ricardo La Fore N-Words / Jeannie Madrid From "clear mama" / Jacinta Taitano Martens Do I Have To Live Like This? / Wardell Montgomery, Jr. Red on Her Fingers / Jacqueline St. Joan Planting Day A Mountain Disappears in a Cloud While I Eat Beans for Lunch / Rick Ardinger From In the Wilderness / Kim Barnes Ice Fishing on Lost Valley Resevoir / William Johnson Searching for Star / Leslie Leek At the Correctional Facility Out Here / Ron McFarland What Were They Like? / Steven E. Puglisi The Long Ride / Bob Schild

The Fall from Grace / William Studebaker Majestic / Robert Wrigley Night Fishing / B. J. Buckley Either a Miracle or a Fluke / David Cates Walt and Dixie / Phil Condon Asia Hotel Noon Sun, East Bay / Peter Fong The Coyotes' Dark Circle / Pete Fromm How This Very Rocking Chair You're Sitting in Came to Be / Lowell Jaeger The Big Drive / Ruth Rudner Madonna in Traffic / Shaun T. Griffin Midnight Cries A Mid-July Invitation / Stephen Shu-Ning Liu Sometimes Our Gifts Are Small and Fast Telephone Call / Gailmarie Pahmeier Music / Kirk Robertson Wovoka One Summer / Gary Short Cry Two Eagles / Heather Ahtone Young Banker / Leon Autrey Rescue / Jean Blackmort The Captives Raices / Arsenio Cordova Thatsapoem / Larry Goodell Comin' Home / Kendall McCook Bone Dream / Roberta Courtney Meyers In These Times In Bread We Trust / Terry Song Pash Rajah's Feather / Karen Thibodeau Whiter Camp / Merry Adams Day of Days / Tom Austin "I Hold with Those Who Favor Fire" / Kate Boyes The Importance of Missing the Mark / Ken Brewer On the Way Home with America / Marilyn Brown Death Valley / Katharine Coles The Landrum Geese Willie and the Water Pipe / David Lee Edna / Patricia McConnel Tishnish - Spring Song / Laurie Ann Ihm The Wind / Rick Kempa Home Fires / Page Lambert Weather Report / Vicki Linder Keep the Wind in Your Face / John D. Nesbitt Lost in Paradise / Joan Puma The Heart of the Egg.