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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Watch a recording of this event: 49 Writers Inspiration Series: Emily Wall Recorded: Tuesday, May 10 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM via Zoom Inspiration is a 49 Writers series in which Writer Laureate Heather Lende will interview some of Alaska’s premier writers about their work, process, and the writing life. Emily Wall is a
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By Kaylyn Haslund and Maranda Clark Tidal Echoes is Southeast Alaska’s annual Literary and Arts journal. For the last 15 years, Tidal Echoes has published the work of local artists and writers. First published in 2004, the journal has grown exponentially with more than 300 submissions a year. The journal was founded by Professor Alexis
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Spruce Tip Beer. A Haiku. A train, a glacier, a howl. A late night walk down a deserted main street. One white blossom set in the deep leaf of a rhubarb. And forty people who notice it. Faculty member Lynn Schooler with conference participants Maggie and Carolyn Just thinking about the North Words Writers
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We have reached that lull in the year where most work is going on behind the scenes: grant writing and reporting; planning for the fall literary season and for Alaska Book Week in October; preparation for our upcoming program and communications survey. Remember that we are still looking for proposals for fall classes – deadline
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A couple of weeks ago guest blogger Emily Wall of Juneau talked about the importance of being less afraid and to be willing to just ask. She shared a poem that William Stafford had written about meeting her when she had contacted him as a young student. She also told us that she had taken
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Today I put a copy of my new book (Liveaboard) in the mail to Terry Tempest Williams. I know, bold move. I sent her the book because one of the poems is dedicated to her, and because her bird writing inspired so much of the book. I wanted to find a way to say thank
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Poet Emily Wall lives in Juneau, where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Southeast. She will join the faculty at the 2010 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference. Salmon Poetry, an Irish publisher, has produced Freshly Rooted, an artful collection of your poems. I understand they’re publishing another poet with
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