Hart Merriam for mistaking two arctic swans for polar bears. But poet Charles Keeler took Alaska verse seriously. One of his poems, "Alaska," opens the first volume of the published journals of ...

John van Amerongen, the editor of the Alaska Fisherman's Journal, which has published fisher poetry for more than 20 years, says that the genre preceded written language and can be traced to a ...

Students in Kake worked on poetry and storytelling in English and Lingít this school year. The project is culminating in a ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of ...