Alaska’s new State
Writer Laureate Nora Marks Dauenhauer will appear tonight in our first
Crosscurrents event of 2013 for an onstage conversation with Diane Benson: Tuesday, February 19 at 7 pm at the Wilda Marston Theatre, Loussac Library.
We’re pleased to bring you this event in partnership with theAnchorage Alaska
kindly allowed us to present three of her poems here:
Writer Laureate Nora Marks Dauenhauer will appear tonight in our first
Crosscurrents event of 2013 for an onstage conversation with Diane Benson: Tuesday, February 19 at 7 pm at the Wilda Marston Theatre, Loussac Library.
We’re pleased to bring you this event in partnership with the
kindly allowed us to present three of her poems here:
Granddaughters Dancing
Granddaughters dancing,
blossoms
swaying in the wind.
Granddaughters dancing,
blossoms
swaying in the wind.
Museum
Alaska Native youth
flickering
in strobelight:
disco diorama.
Wealth
–for all Tlingit women
who slice fish for the
smokehouse
Slime squishing
through gold and silver bracelets:
women slicing salmon.