Watch a recording of this event: READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: ELISHABA DOERKSEN Recorded: Thursday, October 20 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM via Zoom Bio: Elishaba Doerksen is the oldest of fifteen children born to ex-hippies Robert and Kurina Hale—also known as Papa Pilgrim and Country Rose. She grew up in a dilapidated 341-square-foot log cabin […]
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The day after graduating from J-school in Missoula I unplugged my laptop, packed my boots and clothes, and gave away the pine desk I had made. I mailed home a couple boxes of school newspaper stories, black-and-white prints and negatives, and a dozen books—including the AP Stylebook. It was June 1991, with flowers on trees
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Watch a recording of this event: LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE Recorded: October 18 | 6 PM – 7 PM AKDT Via Zoom Live from Storyknife is a monthly reading series featuring the guest residents of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Ann Fisher-Wirth’s seventh book of poems, Paradise Is Jagged, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books in February. Her
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Dusk in Autumn The moon is like a scimitar, A little silver scimitar, A-drifting down the sky. And near beside it is a star, A timid twinkling golden star, That watches likes an eye. And thro’ the nursery window-pane The witches have a fire again, Just like the ones we make,— And now I know
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Watch a recording of the event: FALL 2022 LUIS ALBERTO URREA READING IN ANCHORAGE Recorded: Monday, September 26 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Wilda Marston Theater at Z.J. Loussac Library 3600 Denali St. Anchorage, AK Co-sponsored by Title Wave Books. Bio: Urrea, a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of
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This week I had a phone meeting about a writing project that has extremely long odds. The meeting itself was a blast. After the call ended, I kept checking in with my feelings, trying to imagine the disappointment I’d feel if the project fizzled. But no matter how I pressed and pinched, seeking anticipatory emotional
