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Alice James Books: Poetry Reading & Conversation
Matthew Nienow the author of two full-length poetry collections published by Alice James Books: House of Water (2016) and If Nothing (forthcoming in 2025), as well as three earlier chapbooks. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, New England Review, and Poetry, which awarded him a 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. He has also received fellowships, grants, and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Artist Trust of Washington State, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and 4Culture of Seattle. Matthew serves on the Editorial Board of Alice James Books and he make a brief remark about Alice James Books and our partnership.
Ira Sadoff’s the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently COUNTRY, LIVING (Alice James,2020) and TRUE FAITH (BOA Editions, 2012). He’s published a novel, UNCOUPLING, THE IRA SADOFF READER, and HISTORY MATTERS (U.of Iowa Press), a critical book on poetry and culture. He’s been exceptional productive as a poet and writer, widely anthologized and published in magazines and journals. Sadoff’s awards and honors include the George Bogin Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Amy Dryansky is the author of two poetry collections, one from Alice James, How I Got Lost So Close to Home (1999), winner of the New England/New York Award, and Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry, 2013), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for poetry. Amy’s poems are included in several anthologies and appear in a variety of journals, including Barrow Street, Harvard Review, New England Review, Orion, The Sun, Tin House, and The Women’s Review of Books. She’s also received fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Dryansky teaches creative writing, currently as the James Merrill Visiting Poet at Amherst College.
Sci-Fi to the Singularity
Sci-Fi To the Singularity is a conversation featuring two exceptional writers Jessica Powell and Debbie Urbanski about science fiction, the authors’ own writing, and their views on the actual state of technology, and the reliance on the increasing development of artificial intelligence and its impact on human life and ideas about what it means to be human.
WAYS of KNOWING: Poetry, Science, and the Environment
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the University of Alaska Anchorage/Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library and co-sponsored by the Alaska Quarterly Review, keynote featured poet Jane Hirshfield joins a distinguished panel of Alaskans to consider "Ways of Knowing: Poetry, Science, and the Environment.” The panelists are Jane Hirshfield, Stephanie Holthaus (Climate Action Advisor for The Nature Conservancy Alaska and founder of the Women on Climate Initiative of TNC North America), Nancy Lord (Former Alaska Writer Laureate, Homer), and Marie Tozier (Iñupiaq poet, Nome).
Jane Hirshfield reads from The Asking
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the University of Alaska Anchorage/Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library and co-sponsored by the Alaska Quarterly Review, Jane Hirshfield reads from her new and selected collection of poems. The Asking (Knopf 2023). The event was hosted by the Anchorage Museum. JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of ten collections of poetry and two now-classic collections of essays on poetry’s deep workings, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield is one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for concerns about the biosphere and interconnection. She is has written “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine) and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets; the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award; her books have been long- and finalist-listed for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her work, translated into seventeen languages, appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. Jane Hirshfield is a contributing editor of Alaska Quarterly Review.
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(Streamed live on Feb 16, 2022 )Two of America’s most esteemed poets, Jane Hirshfield and Dorianne Laux, discuss two of their poems that emerged from the same factual source and their craft approach to writing those poems. The conversation includes a larger discussion of craft about writing from newspapers and other facts. One of Dorianne’s books is Facts About the Moon, and Jane has other poems that have emerged from The New York Times science or news articles. Jane is also the curator of the Poets for Science exhibition.
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Produced for Alaska Quarterly Review's 35th anniversary celebration by AQR editor, Ronald Spatz, Shaawatke’é’s Birth is the film version, in Tlingit and English, of a poem published Alaska Quarterly Review by Emily Wall and X'unei Lance Twitchell. "Shaawatke’é’s Birth" is about the birth of a Tlingit child as well as an origin story. It is ultimately a story about how important language is to sustaining a culture and cultural identity. A grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and an in-kind match from the Anchorage Museum supported the film's alignment with Anchorage School District curriculum for use in classroom.