Glen Coffield (1917-1981) was a poet, teacher, and World War II conscientious objector. Coffield spent much of the war at the Waldport, Oregon Civilian Public Service Camp where he was activities coordinator and editor of the camp's underground newsletter "The Untide." After the war Coffield did some acting in San Francisco, and from 1947-1954 ran the Grundtvig Folk School at Eagle Creek in Oregon. In the 1960s Coffield moved back to San Francisco, where he was severely injured in a hit and run accident. Coffield spent the rest of his life in Missouri. Throughout his life, particularly during the period in Oregon and San Francisco, Coffield published his own writings, as well as a series of small literary journals. |
Coffield Publications in Lewis & Clark College Special Collections
• 3 Songs. [Pasadena, CA]: Printed by the Untide Press for members of the Rounce & Coffin Club, 1951.
• Bay Area Poems. San Francisco: Glen Coffield, 1958.
• The Horned Moon. Waldport: Untide Press, 1944.
• The Horse of Summer. La Verne [CA]: C.D. Print, 1946.
• The Night is Where You Fly: Poems. With blocks by Lee Mullican. San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson for the Centaur Press, c1949.
• Rational Power. Portland, OR: The Author, 1955.
• Selected Poems: 1936-1966. Carthage, MO: G. Coffield, 1967.
• Thinking: (poems). Carthage, MO: Coffield, 1975.
• Thirty Poems: The Return and Other Poems. Eugene, OR: Coffield, 1963.
• Ultimatum: (from the unforgettable). Publisher Waldport, OR: Untide Press, 1943.