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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It started with reading too many tweets about AWP, the enormous conference that drew 6,000 writers to Philadelphia last month. From my mother-in-law’s Toronto apartment, I saw photos of writers I admire, dressed up for a night out—wait, that author I know well knows that author I know only via her recent book, a favorite
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Growing up along the Kobuk River, my brother was always going to leave to go to college. From a young age I swore I wouldn’t do that. In the fall of 1983 we boated to the village in our homemade boat and Kole got on the old greasy Twin Beech aircraft operated by what villagers
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Have you ever felt like you knew a piece of your writing wasn’t quite right, but you just didn’t know why? Have you ever been determined to revise, but unsure what to “fix”? Have you ever felt paralyzed by your own revisions, worried that one “wrong” change or edit could ruin your chances of publication?
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On May 14-17, the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns as an in-person event at the Kachemak Bay Campus. This is our 20th conference, and we’re excited to bring together the amazing Alaska writing community. The 2022 keynote speaker is Jericho Brown, 2020 Pulitzer Prize winning poet, winner of the American book award, and finalist for
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