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49 Writers (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Two weeks ago, in my first post , I mentioned that in 1996 I attended a conference where I met John Crawford, of West End Press, which started a process that led him four years later to publish my first full-length collection, Nome Poems . I also mentioned that prior to that meeting, I'd self-published a chapbook that included some of the poems which later appeared in that book. Though I'd taken the...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
For the Sake of the Light: New and Selected Poems. Tom Sexton. (University of Alaska Press PO BOX 756240) $23. I reviewed a previous collection from Tom sexton (Clock With No Hands), a poetry collection that dealt with his childhood in Lowell, Mass. Well Sexton is not only a topnotch urban poet, but he is an accomplished nature poet as well. And if you look at a dramatic sky, and see it as only
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49 Writers (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
This month's 49 Writers featured author John Morgan admits to being "seduced by iambics" while exploring the "cheater sonnet." Maybe we should coin a phrase: Alaskan sonnet? Last month around the equinox, Anchorage poet Tom Sexton drove up to Fairbanks for a reading. His latest book For the Sake of the Light: New and Selected Poems was recently published by the University of Alaska...
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49 Writers (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Consider this: a publisher whose sales have been increasing even in a rough economy, who releases 20-25 new books a year, who's actively seeking new manuscripts, and who's right here in Alaska. Active and forward-thinking, the University of Alaska Press may just be one of our state's best assets. Tell us about your company. Who started it? Why? Which books were among the first you published? What niche...
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49 Writers (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Continuing our series on small and regional publishers, we bring you this interview with Carla Helffrich, editor at McRoy and Blackburn. Tell us about McRoy and Blackburn. Who started it? Why? Which books were among the first you published? What niche do you hold in the marketplace? It’s all my fault…I was the (first real) editor for the University of Alaska Press, and for very good reasons,...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North Edited by Michael Engelhard University of Alaska Press, 237 pages, $21.95 Most people who spend a significant amount of time in the wilderness emerge with a story of an animal sighting that was particularly vivid for them, whether it's a glimpse of a pine martin in the forest, a close scrape with a bear or mountain lion, or an afternoon spent watching...
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A Writer's Life (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Michael Engelhard, author of Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North (University of Alaska Press, released 2/20/09). Engelhard will be reading excerpts from his book tomorrow, March 8th 2009, at 2 p.m. at the Eagle River Nature Center on Eagle River Loop Road. The Executive Director of the Alaska Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center, Kent Brsike, will be there with a live Great Horned Owl and...
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adn.com: Lifestyle (Free subscription) | 28/02/2009
I've become even more of a pest to friends recently by wagging a copy of John Straley's poetry collection "The Rising and the Rain" (University of Alaska Press, 2008) in front of them and reciting selections that have caught my fancy. One poem, "the erotic life of books," luxuriates in the sensations of perusing real books in a library.
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