Writer Marybeth Holleman is the emcee at our upcoming Mary Oliver Tribute, “Such Deep Love,” which will be held Sunday April, 21, 4-6 PM, 2019 at The Writer’s Block Bookstore & Cafe | 3956 Spenard Rd, Anchorage. Read Marybeth’s appreciation and rememberance of Mary Oliver below: Mary Oliver was not just an American poet; she …
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SOUTHCENTRAL ANCHORAGE | July-Sept, 2018 | 49 Writers presents Danger Close Alaska: programming meant to build a literary community of civilians and veterans. One night per month for six consecutive months (one remaining), Danger Close will focus on food, drink, discussion, and writing on different topics, shared between veterans and civilians. Click here for more …
Alaskan poet Mary Kancewick (writing now as Mar Ka) spent the month of July in Vilnius, Lithuania, “trying to improve my knowledge of the Lithuanian language and pursuing research connected to a creative non-fiction project about the effects of political oppression.” Lithuania was, the first of the Eastern Bloc Republics to announce its secession from …
Guest blogger James Engelhardt will be participating in Poetry Solstice next week in Anchorage. It’s a celebration of three poets and their new work. Please join us for readings by James Engelhardt, Peggy Shumaker, and Erin Coughlin Hollowell on Tuesday, June 19 at The Writer’s Block Bookstore and Café in Spenard. The reading begins at …
Guest blogger Erin Coughlin Hollowell will be participating in Poetry Solstice next week in Anchorage. It’s a celebration of three poets and their new work: Erin, Peggy Shumaker, and James Englelhardt. Please join us at their reading Tuesday, June 19 at The Writer’s Block Bookstore and Café in Spenard. The reading begins at 7 pm, …
“Guess what, Auntie C?” my niece tells me on the phone. “My class visited Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst! We saw her room—her bed and her desk and everything. It was amazing.” Tamar is 13, an avid reader, and one of my favorite people. I ask her if she’ll go again with me when we …
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Fairbanks Arts Association (Fairbanks, AK), in partnership with Alaska Center for the Book (Anchorage, AK), have announced that the featured selection for the 2017-2018 statewide Alaska Reads program is Steam Laundry, by Fairbanks poet Nicole Stellon O’Donnell. Alaska Reads is a biennial statewide reading program that features a selected publication by a living Alaskan author. …
As a poet, I am endlessly fascinated by questions of how to create poetry that has mystery without obscurity, how to be plainspoken without being prosaic. How do we give the reader room for thought but not leave them lost in confusion? This will be the focus of my craft talk later this month. In …
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Happy National Poetry Month! In honor of the occasion, I want to share a few books that I’ve read that you may have missed. These three collections stood out for me because of their surprising use of language. The first is Revising the Storm by Geffrey Davis (BOA Editions, 2014). This collection is the winner …
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What is a poetic line, exactly? What difference does it make where the line “breaks?” When we look at words on a page we can instantly identify a poem because a poem is lineated. Lines (or their conspicuous absence) are a large part of what makes a poem a poem. How does a poet decide …
