The Poet Laureate visits Bethel, Alaska, and speaks on one side of a partitioned room. On the other side, the State conducts a hearing on permitting a massive mine upriver.             “Words get thrown around.” 1   "Each poem will tell you what you might ask," the poet says. "I use [...]

  The scoping period for leasing the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ends on Tuesday, June 19. These are my comments, submitted today, to blm_ak_coastalplain_EIS@blm.gov.   To whom it may concern: Thank you for the opportunity to comment during the scoping period on leasing in the coastal plain of the Arctic National [...]

Semi-political, semi-personal, free associative and unrevised, following the 5-7-5 rule even though I KNOW THAT'S NOT A TRANSLATABLE THING so I don't need to talk about it because I get it, really, I do. Now show me yours. 2016 by the Month 1. First deaths of the year drew a spine through the mountains, north [...]

(This has been posted to FERC's e-comment file under docket PF14-21-000 and sent to Miles Baker of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation) Some of you might know me. I’m one of the white hippies in the Denali Borough who shows up to your meetings and writes on the post-it notes you provide for comment, but [...]

In March 2016, I had the opportunity to blog for Alaska's nonprofit writers' community organization, 49 Writers. My entries are linked below. March 2: Travel, Memory, and Craft Notes  March 9: The World of Words and Things March 16: Some Thoughts on "Truth" March 23: Why I'm Not Ashamed to Love the Internet March 30: [...]