If you want to self-publish an ebook, the question, “Should I publish on Kindle or Smashwords?” is an important question. I’ll get to that in a moment, but there is a preceding question of perhaps equal if not more importance, and that is, “Would it be more fun to sit in a bar and toss […]
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Jeremy Pataky Southeast Alaska is rainforest country, where water substantiates the world—even trees, there, are shown to contain molecules from out at sea delivered inland in salmon. Its lush fecundity translates into a literary watershed, too—many great writers and scholars hail from Gustavus, Haines, Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and points between. Lately, the roster of 49
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Congratulations to Maeva Ordaz from West Anchorage High School, who is Alaska’s Poetry Out Loud state champion! Congratulations also go to the runner up, Victoria Moloney from Ben Eielson Jr/Sr High School in Fairbanks. Poetry Out Loud uses a pyramid structure similar to spelling bee competitions; the first level of competition begins at the classroom
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FROM HERE YOU SEEM A BRAIDED RIVER You wore shorefast ice, birds were starting, spring high water was still white snow in mountains. Ice still rimmed your banks. We would come to know gibbous light. We would come to know snow light. We would come to know ice light, star, animal light, window light, want
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Memoir is a tricky business because there’s always someone in the family who doesn’t want the story told and others whose recollections don’t line up with your own memory. To write from personal experience can feel like working your way through an emotional minefield. As Anne Lamott so aptly described in her book about
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In the first half of the 1800s hand-woven Navajo blankets were typically coarsely woven and very plain. They featured the natural color of sheep wool with perhaps a contrasting stripe or two at the edges. During the last half of the 1800s Navajo weavings (increasingly smaller carpets rather than blankets) were frequently high quality,
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Totem Bight State Park A year before my father, the poet William Stafford, died in 1993, two enterprising Forest Rangers from the North Cascades in Washington State wrote and asked if he would furnish some poems for a wild idea they had: Poetry Road Signs. “When you pull off a mountain road,” one said, “it’s
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Congrats to Joan Naviyuk Kane! Her poem, “Exhibits from the Dark Museum” (from AQR’s spring and summer 2014 edition), has been selected for The Best American Poetry 2015. Are you a poet and an artist/photographer? Are you a poet who knows an artist or photographer? Have we got an opportunity for you! Great Harvest Bread
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Just When You Think You’re on Vacation, It’s Time to Revise Again Almost exactly one year ago,I wrote about how many times I’d already revised a certain novel-in-progress and how I could no longer see clearly enough to keep rewriting it. I was sending it off into the publishing world, fingers crossed. One year passed:
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Kaylene Johnson The weight of gravity presses me into my seat as the plane lifts off the ground. As the 737 banks over the Columbia River, pelicans wing low over the gray water. I am thinking about what it must be like to unlearn everything you’ve ever known. My father has Alzheimer’s disease and as
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