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Barbara Hood | An Invitation: Savor the Rising Words Poetry Broadside Exhibit

March 14, 2017 / By

When I was a little girl, my mother remembered me carrying around little notebooks for my “pomes” and pictures, filling them with words and pencil drawings. Most have now gone missing. During college, I kept occasional journals filled with sketches and poems of longing and love, much of it unrequited. Most of these, embarrassingly, survive.  …

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49 Writers | Honoring Gary H. Holthaus

January 26, 2017 / By

We’re glad to partner with Alaska Quarterly Review and the Alaska Humanities Forum on a two-part retrospective celebration of one of Alaska’s most important thinkers and writers, Gary Holthaus. Gary’s been active as a writer and citizen for decades, as the bio below illustrates. A long-time home literary events, Great Harvest Bread Co. in Anchorage …

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49 Writers Literary Roundup | Jan 20-Feb 2

February 3, 2017 / By

Have news, events, or opportunities you’d like to see listed here? Email details to info (at) 49writers.org with “Roundup” as the subject. Spread the word. Your message must be received by close of business the Wednesday before the roundup is scheduled to run at the latest. Unless your event falls in the “Opportunities and Awards” category, it …

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Guest Blogger Alyse Knorr: Six Poetic Forms at a Party

February 18, 2016 / By

A poem’s form consists of the structural “rules” concerning elements like meter, rhyme, alliteration, or repetition. Each poetic form is like a different shaped vase into which water (language) can be poured. Each form has its own particular way of shaping meaning and progressing through a thought. Each has a unique system of organization and …

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Bob Holman – The Man, The Myth, The Legend – or a really amazing guy who knows a bunch about poetry and endangered languages

October 12, 2015 / By

Let me tell you a little about Bob Holman. He’s been kicking around Alaska for almost a month now, and I had the great good fortune to cross paths with him in Homer at the Bunnell Arts Center. Many of you may have already had a chance to hang out with him, but if you …

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Jeremy Pataky: Heading to Southeast Alaska with Overwinter

March 16, 2015 / By

Jeremy Pataky Southeast Alaska is rainforest country, where water substantiates the world—even trees, there, are shown to contain molecules from out at sea delivered inland in salmon. Its lush fecundity translates into a literary watershed, too—many great writers and scholars hail from Gustavus, Haines, Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and points between. Lately, the roster of 49 …

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An Invitation: Savor the Rising Words Poetry Broadside Exhibit

March 13, 2017 / By

  When I was a little girl, my mother remembered me carrying around little notebooks for my “pomes” and pictures, filling them with words and pencil drawings. Most have now gone missing. During college, I kept occasional journals filled with sketches and poems of longing and love, much of it unrequited. Most of these, embarrassingly, …

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Sandra Kleven: Embracing Icons

February 19, 2015 / By

Artwork by Sandra Kleven One may feel an inclination to adore famous poets. To be impressed beyond ease of expression. To see the greatest of poets as nearly holy, and the greatest poems as personal touchstones. “You do not have to be good…” Mary Oliver   “This is the way the world ends…” T. S. …

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