Louise Erdrich told a small group of Alaskan writers gathered at Tutka Bay Lodge outside of Homer a month ago that poetry is lightning and prose is rain. She also said that our survival as a species may just depend on telling stories. It’s in our DNA. I read the other day that literature is […]
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AQR: More Important To Me Than I Could Have Guessed A lot of the things that happen in the north could happen anywhere. I remember driving a gravel piece of the Alcan Highway behind a motorcycle that fishtailed in the deep gravel then crashed, flinging its rider upside down in the air. We watched her
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A NATIONAL BEACON: AQR @ 35 I first submitted poems to Alaska Quarterly Review in August, 2001 – almost exactly a year before I moved from Cape Cod to Anchorage to begin the MFA program there. Amazingly, editor Ron Spatz took “The Oarfish.” It was one of the first five poems I’d had accepted for publication in
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This is the first in a series of four posts honoring Alaska Quarterly Review‘s 35th Anniversary. ~ 49 Writers, Inc. EDITOR’S NOTE: 35th Anniversary By Ronald Spatz, Co-founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief Alaska Quarterly Review It took Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) 37 years to reach this 35th season. If that math seems strange, we’re counting the
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