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Vol. 36, No. 1 & 2
Summer/Fall 2019
SPECIAL FEATURE:
The Lonely Isalnds: Attu and Kiska
Essay by Nancy Lord
Photographs by Irene Owsley
STORIES: 12 Short Stories
ESSAYS: Three Personal Essays
POEMS: A Collection of Poems by 26 Poets
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Brava! Jane Hirshfield's 9th collection, Ledger, will be released by Knopf on March 10. Ledger is "a pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named “among the modern masters” (The Washington Post). Jane is a contributing editor of Alaska Quarterly Review. Photo by Curt Richter.
Kudos to AQR contributors Lee Conell, Renée Branum, Lance Olsen, and Anjali Sachdeva. They are among the 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing (Prose) Fellowship recipients of $25,000 each.
Brava! AQR contributor Eliese Colette Goldbach. Her compelling memoir, “Rust" (Flatiron Books/Macmillan), will be in bookstores on March 3. It's an "affecting, unblinking portrait of working-class life" (Kirkus Reviews) focusing on her experiences in her rural Ohio hometown and working in a steel mill. AQR published Eliese's courageous essay "White Horse" (AQR Vol. 33 1-2) about her rape on a Christian college campus in rural Ohio and its aftermath. It was reprinted in The Best American Essays and widely cited.
