We hear the Skagway’s Red Onion is buzzing with lit chat and writer-types as the North Words Symposium launches this week. Our own Andromeda Romano-Lax is there, along with Dana Stabenow, Kim Heacox, Dan Henry, Tim Woody, Dave Hunsaker, Sherry Simpson, Nita Nettleton, Kaylene Johnson, Peggy Shumaker, Elisabeth Dabney, Jeff Brady, and Buckwheat. We’ll look […]
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… future Eagle scout, that is. Ted Sturgulewski, a 17-year-old aspiring writer (from a family of writers!) and Boy Scout is dedicating some of his summer hours to building bookshelves for our Raven Place Book Nook, where donated Alaska books will be on display for perusing and purchase by guesthouse visitors. I was so charmed
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Corvax McCarthy? (I know CM doesn’t live in Alaska, but I couldn’t resist.) Jack? Or Black Jack? (For Jack London…) A favorite AK author would be a good fit, but I’m not so sure about naming him after any one still living. We tried that with the airport and it’s been — ah — interesting.
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After readings, when I take questions from the audience, I’m likely to be asked how I became a poet in the first place. It seems like such a wildly impractical choice, and yet somehow appealing as well. I tell them that in my case (as, I suspect, with many other poets) it goes back to
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