There's lots to laud in Harmony River, Stephen Jaech's new poetry collection, but what engages me most is Jaech's willingness to proffer an abundance of sensorial detail… the reader doesn't spectate; s/he participates. -Michael Darcher, Author of Odd Comfort and The Silver State Stories
Stephen Jaech’s long-awaited collection… views with empathy and subtle wisdom… Where there is loss or pain… there is also redemption found glancingly in a slant of light or the daily changes of “Today, a sweet magnolia, tomorrow a field of snow.”…To sum up the book: “the wonder comes out/ from the trembling of his heart.” -Sherry Rind, The Storehouse of Wonder and Astonishment and Between States of Matter
In Steve Jaech’s gem lode of a book… I had to sit back and absorb, to read random lines and savor parts of the original experience… -James Cervantes, author of From Mr. Bondo's Unshared Life and Sleepwalker's Songs: New & Selected Poems
Stephen Jaech’s poems have appeared in College English, Poetry Northwest, Seattle Review, The Christian Science Monitor, among many other publications. As an award-winning writer and college educator, his publications include two chapbooks “Many Rooms” and “The Machine that Destroys Itself” in addition to a novel, King of Crows. He served as a guest columnist for the News Tribune and was included in the Washington Commission for the Humanities Inquiring Minds panel of speakers. Now retired from Pierce College, he lives in Steilacoom, Washington with his partner Kathrina.