Timothy Pilgrim — Montana poet & mass media scholar

Carolyn Dale copyrighted photo of Timothy Pilgrim

Welcome from Timothy Pilgrim, Montana native, Pacific Northwest poet and scholar of mass communications.

Pilgrim has 622 acceptances from editors of over 120 different literary journals and other periodicals — see the poems in sidebar categories.

Grouping of poems are by year and in reverse chronological order — with poems for each year being in alphabetical order.

(Poems republished in more than one journal appear anew with each publication.)

Poems published lately features poems accepted and/or published thus far in 2024.

See Poems published 2023 for “Slick — to Exxon then and BP now,” which was featured in Apokalypsis, an oratorium by James Wood and performed by singers from Collegium Vocale Gent and saxophonists from Blindman Sax in cathedrals Sept. 26 and 28, 2023, in Ghent and Amsterdam. The poem was first selected by Wood just as the pandemic was beginning.

Apokalypsis takes its lyrics from the book of the Bible in which St. John describes in a vision how seven angels predict seven catastrophes with their trumpets. Against this, Wood juxtaposes a variety of contemporary poems (including Pilgrim’s), blogs, reports and political speeches from the likes of Napoleon.

By happy accident, Pilgrim’s first poem is the last one featured here among Poems published pre-1990.

Poems not yet published feature Pilgrim’s poems still waiting to find a home. During most years, journals accept a number of them. However, Pilgrim’s newest poems are not posted here immediately because some journals narrowly classify personal websites as being a competing publication.

The first 400 published Pilgrim poems are available in print in Seduced by metaphor: Timothy Pilgrim collected published poems (Cairn Shadow Press, 2021). Find the volume at local bookstores such as Village Books in Bellingham and online at BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon, etc.

This website also displays watercolors by the late Mary Dale that were photographed by the late Bud Dale. Some of them may appear more than once.

Photos or photo-illustrations are also displayed, most of them Pilgrim’s but also others by Carolyn Dale, Todd DePuy or Kamie Pilgrim.

Here’s a sample of a poem first published by Mad Swirl and recently republished by High on Adventure, a popular bi-monthly, online travel and adventure magazine that includes a Pilgrim poem every January, March, May, July, September and November:

Pilgrim, an emeritus university journalism teacher, also provides scholarly mass media information — Mass media essentials. Other links have a list of credible Alternative media and an updated report on America’s rich getting richer. See the links in the left column.

About Pilgrim contains more biographical Pilgrim information. For information about Cairn Shadow Press, either click on the link or scan the QR code:

Novel by Carolyn Dale

How shall we live to keep our planet alive is the theme of a suspenseful work of fiction, Second Rising, published by Cairn Shadow Press in 2020 by Carolyn Dale — novelist (Pilgrim’s wife).

Second Rising “lights a path for those who understand Mother Earth as a living entity and shows a way forward inspired by ancient traditions, refashioned myths, and new forms of community… . Definitely, a candidate for any of the ‘Book of the Year’ awards,” wrote Glen Larum, author of the Kirkus Best Indie Debut Novel 2019, Waltz Against the Sky.

Larum is also author of a book of poems, Leaving Montana and a memoir, A Longtime Gone — all available at Walking 3BarT Press.

Second Rising, the story, a YouTube video by Stephen Howie and Maria McLeod, offers a compelling visual introduction to the novel.

Dale’s informative, and often humorous, essays are found at  Present Imperfect in the blog section of her website.

An e-book of stories of the pioneer life of the Ella P. Jordan Dale family — called Memoirs: Life on the Farm for the Seven Jordan Sisters 1890-1919 (edited by Dale) are featured at Smashwords.com (with a Kindle format), BarnesandNoble.com, nationalbookstore.com, ebookmarket.org, ibooks at Apple and others.

Dale’s second novel, Sylvie’s Chance (2020), recounts the historically accurate account of her French ancestor who traveled from Illinois to settle in Texas during its struggle for independence from Mexico. It is available from these outlets as well.

In the words of Larum, Sylvie’s Chance is “something really special … intellectually rigorous historical fiction that defies easy description. In Sylvie, she [Dale] has created one of the most remarkable characters I have ever met.”

Pilgrim’s M.A. thesis in the 1980s focused on privacy and docudramas. Pilgrim has published articles about privacy in academic journals but is not the former Australian privacy minister or commissioner — nor the author of “The Day the Ravens Died” or “The Undefended Land” — nor involved with “The Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim.” This Pilgrim is also known as Tim Pilgrim.

Thanks for visiting!

updated March 2024