Alaska

The Juneau Poetry Society created the Poet Laureate Program in the early 1960s. In 2021, Heather Lende was named the Alaska State Writer Laureate.

Type	Title	State
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	Hearthside Books & Toys	Alaska
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	Title Wave Books	Alaska
Literary Organization	Alaska State Council on the Arts	Alaska
Conference	Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival	Alaska
Conference	Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference	Alaska
Reading Series	Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series	Alaska
Writing Program	University of Alaska, Anchorage	Alaska
Writing Program	University of Alaska at Fairbanks	Alaska
Literary Organization	Alaska Center for the Book	Alaska
Literary Magazine	Alaska Quarterly Review	Alaska

Slowly, without sun, the day sinks
toward the close of December.
It is minus sixty degrees.

Over the sleeping houses a dense
fog rises—smoke from banked fires,
and the snowy breath of an abyss
through which the cold town
is perceptibly falling.

As if Death were a voice made visible, 
with the power of illumination …

Now, in the white shadow
of those streets, ghostly newsboys
make their rounds, delivering 
to the homes of those
who have died of the frost
word of the resurrection of Silence.

John Haines

1993

“I remember the birds ever so many of them when I hunted with the weapons of a child. The water was covered in their numbers, red as the flowers of summer on the mountain. The red phalarope were our prey of choice, there were so many. Today, these birds return yearly, but now only a few return home in spring to show us they remain a part of the land, as we are.” —Herbert Aġiyġaq Anungazuk

Joan Naviyuk Kane

2016

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