If you’re reading this and have published books, you know the challenges of planning even a single book release event. Coordinating a tour is exponentially tougher. From the end of April through the first week of June, I appeared in Skagway, Haines, Juneau, Talkeetna, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Homer, Soldotna, Talkeetna (again), Denali Park, and Anchorage (again). […]
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Everyone stutters occasionally, but only a few of us are stutterers. And those of us who are stutterers don’t always stutter, just as the rest of you don’t always speak perfectly. We all stammer confessing love, but never do if crying out in pain. The well-meaning compliment, “But you’re not stuttering now,” is as hurtful
Below are a few comments from my perspective about my father, Gary Holthaus, and his writing life. His poetry of life was so expansive that many folks now connecting with us will say, “Wow! I did not know he did that too, or wrote that…” We did not know Dad as a writer growing up,
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The authors I admire the most take the biggest risks. They aren’t fearless. They experience fear and they head into the unknown anyway, feeling their way in the dark. When Michael Cunningham began writing The Hours, which started out as a contemporary retelling of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, he knew all the ways it could
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What Does a Fetal Heartbeat Sound Like? —a found poem Like feet running on wet sand. Like horses galloping horses like a hummingbird a hundred hummingbirds in a snowstorm. Like a country music station picked up like being underwater and fish listening to our kicking like an off-balance washing machine like a
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Geese have always held a special place in my heart. My first story in my first Creative Writing class was about wounding a swan while hunting geese on the spring ice. At that time, I understood nothing of subtlety, or symbolism. I especially despised symbolism. I liked to be told a story, not confused by
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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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