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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. 

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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

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    John Haines

    John Haines was the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Congress.

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    Olena Kalytiak Davis

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Fairbanks Under the Solstice

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

Exceeding Beringia

“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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