Tim Pilgrim – Professor Emeritus

Tim Pilgrim, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Tim Pilgrim Updates

Spring 2024

Since my Winter 2023 update, I’ve continued writing and publishing poetry, with 31 poems picked up by 15 different publications in 2023 and another eight accepted by mid-April in 2024.

My total is now 623 poems (450 of them since I retired in early June in 2013) in over 120 different journals, books and other publications.

One poem, “Slick — to Exxon then and BP now,” first published in 2010 by Poets for Living Waters, was featured in September 2023 as a part of Apokalypsis, an oratorium by British composer James Wood that was performed by singers and musicians in European cathedrals 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.)

Also, Carolyn Dale and I have begun traveling more since Covid has eased. We went to Paris and Lyon (also in France) in March 2023, to Canada a number of times, to the Zion and Red Cliffs area of southern Utah for hiking, and to Colorado, Maryland, Montana and Idaho for family visits.

Otherwise, retirement life continues to be a mixture of snowshoeing, yoga, hiking and other exercise, home repair, volunteer work and an occasional turn around the dance floor.

Oh, and my website, TimothyPilgrim.org, still provides information I provided as a journalism prof about mass communication, along with an up-to-date list of links to trustworthy alternative media and documentation of the rich getting richer and richer.
Winter 2023 Update
It’s been three Covid-ridden years since my last update — and I’ve escaped it to this point.

I am still spending much time writing and sending out poetry, and Carolyn Dale and I still travel — soon to France — in the last years (late fall or late winter) to hike in the Southwest.

Otherwise, life consists mostly of good food, lots of exercise (hiking, dancing, walking, yoga) and work maintaining our 95-year-old house.

Here are the bullet points:

In 2021, I published 33 poems ( (spread among 20 or so journals in the U.S., Canada and Australia);

In 2022, 53 poems (spread among 20 or so journals in the same countries);

In 2023, seven poems thus far;

I still provide mass media information at TimothyPilgrim.org — including an evolving list of trustworthy alternative media. I also still track information about the rich getting richer, and the rest of us, well, you know.
Winter 2022 Update

I’ve kept busy during the second year of COVID-19 by publishing poetry, exercising, doing house repair and traveling.
I still spend time keeping up a mass media information site, which is used by students from different universities who are looking for essential media material or alternative media sources — it’s located at www.timothypilgrim.org.
In March 2021, our press, Cairn Shadow Press (cairnshadow.com), gathered 400 of my published poems for a book called “Seduced by metaphor: Timothy Pilgrim collected published poems.” It is available at the usual outlets.
Also, during 2021, I published 33 poems in 15 different journals, anthologies and other publications such as HighonAdventure.com.
Carolyn Dale and I gambled and successfully avoided COVID-19 when we traveled to St. George, Utah, to hike and to visit family in other places within driving distance.
Of course, we also hiked and snowshoed in Bellingham and at Mt. Baker — and we even danced a couple times during the summer at The Beach in Birch Bay
Winter 2021 Update

Tim Pilgrim and Carolyn Dale hiking in southern Utah. // Photo courtesy of Tim Pilgrim
After retiring in 2013, I still keep J190 (mass media) information, alternative media links and a rich-get-richer page on my website: www.timothypilgrim.org

A collection of 400 of my published poems called “Seduced by metaphor,” was published in March 2021 and is available at Village Books and other independent bookstores, as well as Amazon and Barnes & Noble and other online sites.

As noted on the book’s back cover, my poems “gain enough grace to repaint souls, eat bitter hearts, force-feed geese, put gray doves of peace to sleep — with luck, make each day a blessing, joyful chance to explode mosquitos, count ravens, zigzag mow, herd flies, do gravestone math, vacuum cats, circle ruins on a map — and, at sunset, six nightmares late, fence in darkness, recite night sky, dream all the blackness back to light.”

I no longer run marathons, but even in the times of Covid I enjoy hiking and snowshoeing with Carolyn Dale, who is the author of two novels, “Second Rising” (2019) and “Sylvie’s Chance” (2020). Read about them at CairnShadow.com and find them at the places mentioned above.
Winter 2020 Update

I’ve been busy over the past year by working on poetry, traveling and initiating a publishing venture. In August, I started a publishing company called Cairn Shadow Press (see it at cairnshadow.com), with a mission dedicated to publishing literary works that explore the environment of the Pacific Northwest, its people and stories.
In the evolutionary stage, the press is presenting an environmental novel with a hopeful ending, called “Second Rising,” written by Carolyn Dale. We were fortunate to be able to publish it, since it had originally been contracted to Harvard Square Editions before it became available again. A “Second Rising” video trailer produced by Stephen Howie and Maria McLeod is available at https://youtu.be/1SZBFIv0wQQ

I still spend time keeping up a mass media information site, which is used by students looking for essential media material or alternative media sources — it’s located at www.timothypilgrim.org

Also, during 2019, I published 31 poems in 19 different journals, anthologies and publications, and Carolyn and I traveled in the spring by hybrid through eight western and southwestern states — what we called our Great American Road Trip. In addition, we spent the normal amount of time hiking, tending our cat, Brio, in his 17th year — and keeping up the yard and the house, which will turn 100 during this decade. My new hip works fine with a shovel and rake!
Winter 2019 Update

Tim Pilgrim (retired 2013) is still writing and publishing poetry (see www.timothypilgrim.org for several hundred published poems — and unpublished ones too).
In addition, he has moved mass media-related information from the journalism department server, Hope, which has been shut down. The material was receiving over 3 million visits a year at Hope and is core information for the Journalism 190 course.
Click on the mass media link at www.timothypilgrim.org to find it. Also included are links to over 125 alternative media websites, along with a documentation of the rich getting richer.
Tim has a nondigital life too — with a new titanium hip, he no longer runs marathons, but he does enjoy hiking, dancing and traveling with Carolyn Dale, feeding blue jays and being a servant to their 15-year-old black cat.