Tiger Swallowtail on lilac “The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible…” – William Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” For twenty-eight years, we lived in the same house a few miles from Palmer. The […]
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For a while we watched expectantly. Then Volk and Ted broke out fishing rods. I dozed in the afternoon sun on the bank of the East Fork of the Chandalar River, now fifty or sixty miles above the Arctic Circle. Ted and Volk were looking intently upriver when I awoke. “Johnny Frank coming,” Stanley announced.
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The whishing snow over the frozen river Sends sastrugis marching to the Ice boom drum. The wind chime Rhymes carry from houses on the Western bluff, Whose windows squint in the sinking sun. The jet plane above the Eastern Bank flies silently, stalked by engine churn. A dog team, small and invisible, barks In my ear.
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Tonight’s the night! The Write-a-thon at Snow City Café, 5:30–10:30 p.m. Thanks to you, we’ve raised around $5,000 so far. In the past 24 hours alone, we’ve raised nearly $1,500. A tremendous thank you to all those already registered and their supporters. If you haven’t registered, it’s not too late to sign up. Online registration
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What have you done lately for your writing community? What have you done for yourself as a writer? If your answer to either is “not enough,” fear not. Tomorrow night, these two priorities meet in perfect convergence at the 4th Annual 49 Writers Write-a-thon. You’ve got a story to start. A novel to finish. An
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Walking along the Matanuska River Laboring on yet another revision of my essay Driving the Dempster, I realized that I could not include every interesting occurrence or idea but I also could not bring myself to permanently jettison the deleted fragments. In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton wrote “Journeys are the midwives of
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The Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference[1] at Bemidji State University is back again for its second year after a four-year hiatus. On the BSU campus on the shores of Lake Bemidji where you’re likely to be awakened by the haunting call of a loon or inspired by the grace of a bald eagle, conference attendees are
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Luis Alberto Urrea Tonight, April 7, at 7 pm, 49 Writers welcomes author Luis Alberto Urrea to the Willa Marston Theater at Loussac Library in Anchorage for a Crosscurrents discussion. It is my honor to have been chosen to engage Luis in a discussion about “Crossing Borders.” Before anyone passes any judgment on a border or
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We’re entering the home stretch for this year’s 49 Writers Write-a-thon! With seven more days to go, we’re advancing toward our $8,000 goal. So far, 23 participants have raised almost $2,000. We’re still a long way from our goal though and we’d love your support. The main event is Friday, April 11, 5:30–10:30 p.m., at
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Part II of a series. Part I is here. To re-read our own work in preparation for a major manuscript revision, and especially to check its pacing and accumulative effects, we have to get into the mindset of an imaginary reader, which is hard to do for many reasons. One of them is the fascinating
