Like most writers, I read a lot. OK, that’s an understatement. I depend on reading like other people depend on exercise or therapy or friendships: it centers me, guides me, defines me. Books are as necessary as food. I came late to poetry. I rarely read it until my first marriage disintegrated in the widening […]
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Last June, when the Supreme Court ruled that Exxon pay $507 million to Alaska Natives and fishermen harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, I was visiting friends in Kodiak. “Well,” said a local commentator, “at least it’s a slap on the wrist to Exxon.” My friend, who’d captained a fishing boat in Alaska
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Twenty years since the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Has that much time really passed? Just in time for that dark anniversary, Marybeth Holleman — author of The Heart of the Sound — brings us her first post as the March Featured Guest Author. In college, I read Edward Abbey’s Monkeywrench Gang, and sat up late
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Anne Coray and Marybeth Holleman agreed to take turns answering questions about their environmentally-focused anthology, new from University of Alaska Press. They have lots of events set up, not only in Anchorage, but across the state. (See bottom for details.) As we all know, Alaska is big in the news right now. There couldn’t be
