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Poet Anne Coray reads from her latest work, Violet Transparent, 2010-12-15

Anne Coray is author of several collections of poetry including ‘Bone Strings,’ and is the co-editor of the anthology ‘Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment.’ She is founder of Northshore Press, a small literary publishing house in rural Alaska, and has published authors from around the nation and Alaska. In 2010, she was a recipient of the Contributions to Literacy in Alaska Awards (CLIA). She read with her husband, Steve Kahn, and mentions his talk following hers. This podcast was recorded Oct. 13, 2010 at the UAA Campus Bookstore.

Steve Kahn reads from The Hard Way Home, 2010-12-14

Steve Kahn is a lifelong Alaskan and former hunting guide who lives a subsistence-based lifestyle on Lake Clark near Port Alsworth, Alaska. He is a contributor to the anthologies ‘Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North’ and ‘Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment.’ Here, Kahn discusses his new book, ‘The Hard Way Home: Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt.’ His talk followed that of his wife, poet Anne Coray. They read and spoke at the UAA Campus Bookstore together. This podcast was recorded Oct. 13, 2010 at the UAA Campus Bookstore.

Kelsea Habecker reads from Hollow Out at the Campus Bookstore, 2010-10-30

Kelsea Habecker will read and take questions today at the UAA Campus Bookstore. She is the author of Hallow Out. Of her book, Charles Simic, poet laureate of the United States, has written: “Hallow Out is one of the most moving and original books of poems I have read in years.” This podcast was recorded on Oct. 26, 2010

Terry Tempest Williams, presented by the Bartlett Lecture Series, 2010-09-21

Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Williams, like her writing, cannot be categorized. She has testified before Congress on women’s health issues, been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as “a barefoot artist” in Rwanda. Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, was published in October 2008 by Pantheon Books.

UAA presents faculty authors David Stevenson, Judith Barrington and Jo-Ann Mapson, 2010-07-22

This reading is sponsored by the Northern Renaissance Arts and Science Reading series and the UAA department of Creative Writing and Literary Arts. This podcast was recorded on July 20, 2010.

David Stevenson 3:25
Judith Barrington 23:07
Jo-Ann Mapson 53:17

David Stevenson is the director of the Creative Writing and Literary Arts Department and the Low-Residency MFA Program at UAA. He has been teaching creative writing for over twenty years at the University of Utah, University of California Davis, and at Western Illinois University where he was full professor and director of the Graduate Program in English. Recently he contributed to Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska (University of Alaska Press); Alpinist; and Cimarron Review. David recently finished a novel: Forty Crows, is set in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

Judith Barrington is a memoirist and a poet. Her Lifesaving:A Memoir won the Lambda Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Her best-selling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art is enormously popular with writing groups, university programs, and individual memoirists. Last year, her most recent poetry collection, Horses and the Human Soul was selected by the Oregon State Library for “150 Books for the Sesquicentennial” (from among books by Oregon writers, 1836 – 2009). Lost Lands, a poetry chapbook recently won the Robin Becker Chapbook Award.

Jo-Ann Mapson grew up in Southern California, attended Johnston College at the University of Redlands, and received her B.A. in English/Creative Writing at California State University Long Beach with honors in Creative Writing. In 1992, she received her MFA in Writing at Vermont College in Montpelier where she completed thesis projects in both poetry and fiction.

Nonfiction writer Sherry Simpson reads from her work, 2010-07-21

In this podcast, Alaska writer Sherry Simpson reads from her work. She is currently writing about people and bears for publication by the University Press of Kansas. She has authored two collections of essays, ‘The Way Winter Comes’ and ‘The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska.’ Her essays and articles have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She is the winner of the inaugural Chinook Prize and the Andres Berger award for nonfiction. She is a core faculty member in literary nonfiction in UAA’s Low Residency MFA program. This reading is a part of the Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Reading Series 2010, sponsored by the Dept. of Creative Writing and Literary Arts at UAA. This podcast was recorded on July 19, 2010 in Fine Arts 150 on the UAA campus.

Poet Anne Caston and fiction writer Richard Chiappone read from their work, 2010-07-21

Anne Caston 9 min 10 sec
Richard Chiappone 29 min 15 sec
This reading was recorded on July 19, 2010 in Fine Arts 150 at UAA.

Anne Caston is core faculty in poetry in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage and divides her time between Alaska and Central Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband. Her first book, ‘Flying Out With The Wounded,’ won the 1996 New York University Press Prize in Poetry. Her second collection, ‘Judah’s Lion,’ is now in its second edition from Toad Hall Press (2009). She is currently at work on her third book of poems and a memoir.

Richard Chiappone received an MFA in creative writing at UAA in 1994. He has published dozens of stories and essays in both commercial and literary magazines including Playboy, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Alaska Magazine, Missouri Review, Crescent Review Sou’wester, New Virginia Review, ZYZZYVA and others. His collection of short stories, “Water of an Undetermined Depth,” was publish in 2003. Chiappone lives in Anchor Point where he writes a newspaper column, teaches creative writing and serves on the faculty of the Cachemak Bay Writers’ Conference. He is an associate faculty member of the Low-Residency MFA Program at UAA.

Alaska Writer Laureate, Nancy Lord, and novelist and writer Valerie Miner present selections from their work, 2010-07-20

Nancy Lord, Alaska’s current Writer Laureate, holds a liberal arts degree from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Vermont College. In addition to being an independent writer based in Homer, she fished commercially for many years and has, more recently, worked as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships.

Associate faculty member, Valerie Miner, is the award-winning author of thirteen books. Her latest novel is After Eden. Other novels include Range of Light, A Walking Fire, Winter’s Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement: A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the English Department. Her short fiction books include Abundant Light, The Night Singers and Trespassing. Her collection of essays is Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Reportage. In 2002, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir was a Finalist for the PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award. Abundant Light was a 2005 Fiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards.

The Northern Renaissance Arts and Science Reading series is sponsored by the UAA department of Creative Writing and Literary Arts.
6:21 Nancy Lord
36:56 Valerie Miner
This podcast was recorded on July 18, 2010.

10-minute excerpt from playwright Zack Rogow's work, Things I Didn't Know I Loved: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet, 2010-07-19

This is a short excerpt from a theatrical reading of ‘Things I Didn’t Know I Loved’ by Zack Rogow, directed by Dawson Moore, Coordinator of the Prince William Sound Community College Last Frontier Theatre Conference.

Rogow is the author, editor or translator of 18 books and plays. His play ‘La Vie en Noir: The Art and Life of Leopold Sedar Senghor’ was performed by the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco in 2007. The Aurora Theatre in Berkeley staged his translation of Marcel Pagnol’s ‘Marius’ and also a reading of his own play ‘Tattoos and Gingerbread.’ He teaches in the low-residence MFA program at UAA. The part of the poet Nazim Hikmet is read by Anchorage actor Mark Robokoff. Actors reading other parts include Ryun Buen, Rebecca Gamache and Luke Bartholomew. This reading was recorded on July 17, 2010 in Rasmuson Hall 101 at UAA as a part of the Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Reading Series, 2010. The series is sponsored by the Creative Writing and Literary Arts Dept. at UAA.

An evening with Red Hen Press: poets Kate Gale and Peggy Shumaker read new and selected work, 2010-07-17

The Northern Renaissance Arts and Science Reading series is sponsored by the UAA department of Creative Writing and Literary Arts.

Shumaker was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She has served as poet-in residence at the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell and as the president of the board of directors of AWP. Professor emerita from University of Alaska Fairbanks, Shumaker teaches in the low-residency MFA Rainier Writing Workshop and at many writing conferences and festivals.

Kate Gale, PhD, is the 2005-2006 President of PEN USA, and president of American Composers Forum/LA, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor at The Los Angeles Review, as well as a writer of poetry, novels and librettos.

This podcast was recorded on July 15, 2010

Craig Childs presents on his adventures in search of water and novelist Carolyn Turgeon reads from Mermaids, 2010-07-16

Wilderness adventurer and author Craig Childs presents from his field notebooks on his experiences in search of water. Novelist Carolyn Turgeon reads from her forthcoming novel, “Mermaid,” a retelling of the original little mermaid story. This reading is part of the Northern Renaissance Arts and Science Reading series sponsored by the UAA department of Creative Writing and Literary Arts.

5:40 Craig Childs
55:22 Carolyn Turgeon

This podcast was recorded on July 14, 2010.

Author Seth Kantner reads from Shopping for Porcupine, 2010-01-19

The UAA/APU Books of the Year presented author Seth Kantner on Nov. 12. His two books, Shopping for Porcupine and Ordinary Wolves, mark him as one of the most interesting and dynamic Alaskan writers. He discussed the Books of the Year theme “Responding to Climate Change in Alaska,” illustrated by his own photos and commentary. This podcast was recorded on Nov. 12, 2009.

Poet and UAA alumna Elizabeth Bradfield discusses and reads from Approaching Ice, 2010-03-08

Poet and UAA alumna Elizabeth Bradfield discusses and reads from her second collection of poems, “Approaching Ice.” This event was sponsored by the UAA College of Arts and Sciences. This podcast was recorded on March 3, 2010.

Tom Sexton: For the Sake of Light: One Poet's Journey from Imagism to Closed Form, 2009-06-03

Poet Tom Sexton, UAA Professor Emeritus of English and former Alaska Poet Laureate, discusses poetic form, the influence of Alaska on his poetry, and reads from his recently published collection, For the Sake of the Light: One Poet’s Journey from Imagism to Closed Form. This podcast was recorded on June 1, 2009.

Poets Anne Caston and Zack Rogow and author Rich Chiappone read from their work, 2009-08-17

This reading was part of the 2009 Northern Renaissance Arts & Science Series presented by the Creative Writing and Literary Arts department at UAA. Recorded: July 15, 2009

Poet Linda McCarriston and author Josip Novokovich read from their work, 2009-08-17

This reading was part of the 2009 Northern Renaissance Arts & Science Series presented by the Creative Writing and Literary Arts department at UAA. July 14, 2009.

Poet Derick Burleson and author Eva Saulitis read from their work, 2009-08-17

This reading was part of the 2009 Northern Renaissance Arts & Science Series presented by the Creative Writing and Literary Arts department at UAA. Recorded: July 13, 2009.