Photo Caption: One of the hardest parts of the 70.3 triathlon: transitioning into the half-marathon, following the bike, with over two hours to go and legs made of lead. The trick: stay in the moment, even if the moment hurts. Last week I competed in my first 70.3 Ironman, an eight-hour triathlon. I was one […]
A while back I wrote a piece on acceptances and rejections, and I just realized that I’d left something out: publications that occur without our knowing about it. This first happened to me around twenty years ago. I was sitting schmoozing with a group of writer friends in Fairbanks when the subject of a new
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My wife and I are in the habit now, when one of us says something not particularly insightful, of responding with, Okaaay. I got this from Frank, who said it often in the writing class I took with him a few years ago. Class would often start with him asking us about a reading he
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(Originally published in the Copper River Record April 28, 2022) At the end of dirt main street in McCarthy, an old wooden building stands with a false front stamped in faint, faded back letting that says, RO.G. Watsjold Groceries & Meat – Hardware. Lovingly referred to as the Old Hardware Store, the relic is the
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First Infraction Saturated air, the pass immersed In fog. We still can’t fly, although the rain This day has ceased its drumming. A burst Of sun emblazons one wing of our plane That sits on rocky beach, tied down, fueled Up. What a lovely color: its body a warm And deep maroon, with accents black.
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In the 1980’s fur prices dropped. My girlfriend Stacey and I were living on the Kobuk River at my family’s old place, hauling wood, running dogs and trying to trap furs. To keep writing, I’d spent $1900 and bought one of the first-ever laptops. ‘Laptop’ was a strange new word, and that word processor was
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Scott H. Young, productivity expert and author of Ultralearning, which I recommend, recently blogged this in response to a reader question: “I believe motivation is a (somewhat) rational signal about the value of your activity. To feel motivated, the project needs to be high value with high certainty.” I might convince myself, on a good
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The other day I had a first — a journal editor called me up to say they were accepting a poem. Naturally I was delighted. Once or twice before, I’d received phone calls for a book acceptance or a residency but never before a call from a editor on a specific poem they were taking.
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From the poet: I appreciate the opportunity to share three poems on the topic of “why write.” In my case, poems about the difficulty of finding time for writing. The last of the three poems is about the kind of reception I would love to have for what I have written. Poet’s Lament In
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Danger Close Alaska began as a matter of envy. My first UAA MFA residency recently concluded, I was deployed to Africa in the summer of 2014. I missed the thrill of workshop, of being surrounded with the creative buzz that surrounded craft talks, the rush of responding to prompts that unlocked story ideas and forms
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