An invited essay in applied anthropology, “Alan Boraas and Kahtnuht’ana Qenagu: Preserving and Renewing an Alaska Native Language” was published May 22, 2022 by Kerry D. Feldman and Phyllis A. Fast in Profiles in Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook, ed. by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney. Excerpt: “The project (a Dena’ina language self-learning […]
Warflower: A True Story of Family, Service and Life in Alaska by Robert Stark “On my mother’s side of the family, every male served in the military. On my father’s side of the family, every male served prison time. My brother went to prison and I joined the army, we pride ourselves on family traditions.
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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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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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The Opposite Of Trust: A Cold War Novel Of Passion And Betrayal by Rodger Carlyle Every night Ellen would sit on the rickety picnic table next to Wolf Lake, letting the aurora temporarily fill some empty spot. Some nights she could imagine her body converted to electrons dancing across the sky with the aurora taking
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Editor’s Note: Thank you to Lisa Alexia for this review of Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth. Bathsheba will be teaching a nonfiction workshop for 49 Writers during her time in Anchorage. You can sign up on our web site. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, by Bathsheba Demuth (W.W. Norton & Co,
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When I was a teenager, just getting interested in poetry, I acquired a volume of the Collected Poems by Winfield Townley Scott. “Winfield Townley who?” you may ask. In fact, he was a known (maybe not very well-known) writer back then. He’d won the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1939,
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Imagine driving into the woods on a dirt road you have never traveled, looking for a boarded-up cabin, and hoping that it might be a shelter for your family after six weeks on the road. The grass and fireweed is head high, and only the roof is visible from the dirt trace someone called a
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I crested the last green rise and was level with the turquoise lake and the slim twist of water flowing out of it. Here the creek is so narrow that I jumped over it. I turned my gaze toward the cirque in front of me, rimmed by cliffs on three sides. Dall sheep traversed vertical
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Crouched on the riverbank, I’m looking into the eyes of several large chum salmon, their heads and slithering bodies well above the water. Chum salmon are hefty fish, second only to king salmon in size. The spawning males have hooked jaws with sharp, canine-like teeth. Their mouths gape as they fin their bodies forward. Some
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