UAS Literary & Arts Journal 2017

The 2017 edition of Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Remembering Dr. Teri Rofkar -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Esther -- Untitled -- How to Love Your Body -- no mercy -- Winter Sangria -- Morning Poppies -- How Mom Hooked Dad -- Your Ripples and My Ripples -- Making the Kids Clean Up -- Conquering the Wild Skunk Cabbage -- What’s Queer Got To Do With It? -- Mile Ten for Mary Oliver -- Cache -- This Place (The Tongass) -- No More Shoulds -- Nagoon and Caterpillar -- How to age gracefully -- Yellow Legs --Feeding Her Inner Goose at the Boy Scout Camp -- On Guard -- We Are Family -- Grandma Zona -- Mere Minerals -- Life Goes On -- Evergreen Cemetery -- Untitled -- What is the heart but a -- Why I Feel Nostalgic for Hurricanes -- Stardust in Seattle: Motes of Human Activity -- Coyote -- Untitled -- An Affair with Andromeda -- Untitled -- How Night Comes in Winter -- Light Up the Sky -- Courage -- See You In Spring -- Smoking Luckies -- Agape -- Old Days in Douglas, Alaska -- Pink House -- Tableside Conversation/Overheard in a Restaurant -- The Kumquat Cure for Hypomanics -- Pleistocene -- A Taste of Punjab -- Untitled -- Feeding My Family -- Corn -- When Nothing Else Works -- Feedback Loop -- Dancing With Dante -- 451 -- Circle Room -- An Interview with Rico Lanaat’ World -- Check Out Time -- Cabbage Canner Shoes -- Chanterelle (detail) -- Visiting Hour -- That’s Alright It’s a Warm Rain -- Welcome to the Jungle: Jonestown!! -- Green Unfurling -- Four O’ Clock in the Morning -- Pathway -- An Interview with Lynn Schooler -- Glacier Study 2 and Glacier Study 7 -- Storm -- Loitering -- What I Call Home -- Beyond Heritage -- Naming the Sun -- Auke Lake Mirror -- To Be a Superhero -- Keepsies -- Alchemy -- Gleeful Refuge -- Shaatk’ásk’u -- A Smooth Snowfall -- Back Country -- A Good Morning -- Magical Sunset -- A Simple Gesture -- Columbine -- Notorious -- There Are More Dead Veteran Poets Than Live Ones -- Lupine Dreaming -- Untitled -- Peaches -- Squirrel Sampling Sapsucker Holes -- To Alight -- Mattress -- Curveball -- Crossing Chance -- Gyibaw Ukulele -- Ipswiche -- Hummingbird in Formline with Daisy -- The Pigeons of Valparaiso, Chile -- Hold On Come Along -- Man In A Malt Shop -- Untitled -- Downpours -- Untitled -- The Truth -- Swimming in Place -- Matriline -- Writer and Artist Biographies -- Motherhoo

UAS Literary & Arts Journal 2018

Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Remembering Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- I Want to Say Yes -- Poppies and Lupin Reach for the Light -- Eight Years Old -- The Alaskan Dragon -- Permission -- By the Creek -- The Sky Turns -- Morning Mists -- Hand Strings, Heart Strings -- What is Depression? -- Portent -- Cranes -- North by Way of Dust and Grit -- Have you ever been in a bush plane in Alaska -- Flying in the Bush and Ice Fishing -- Elegy for Two Dads and a Mom -- Spirits -- Orbit -- Forever Stamp II -- Wind and Water -- Untitled -- Candlelit Fires 2009 -- Go On -- Pantoum for Pulse Orlando -- We Are -- For Emmy, A Year Later -- Sitka Bridge -- Living Beautifully -- In Tijuana -- At the Backdoor of Salvation -- Kikito -- The Things We Carry -- Pochos -- The Courage -- The Day the Ice Castle Burned --Once Upon a Time -- Stolen Dungies -- Thank You Notes I Should Have Written -- Doghouse -- On the Eve of My Sixty-Fifth Birthday -- Monogamy Three-some --Skagway Classic on Broadway -- Virgin Queer’s Bishop Alemany High School Reunion -- Value -- Lately, Walking the Dog -- Notes to My Husband, the Sailor -- Bees and Things Madeline Taught Me -- Hidden Pain -- Promise of Spring -- Bouquet -- Elevation -- Haiku -- Masseuse as a Ship -- Figurative Motion -- Interview with Featured Artist Cristofer Taylor -- Delay -- Veronique in Time -- Juliet -- Sayulita --Hemlock Street --10 a.m. Fiction -- Decadent Portrait -- The Curious Visitor -- French Quarter, NOLA --Unmitigated Fear -- Homage -- What I Read Before I Could -- Jumping the Net -- Barn Swallows -- Hawk Owl -- A Brother for a Knife -- Untitled -- 7.24.2017 -- Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve on Fire -- Caught in Winter -- Untitled -- White Trash -- Want -- Intertwining Language with Nature -- Interview with Featured Writer Vivian Faith Prescott -- How to say IT -- The Seaweed, the Herring, and the Seal -- Icicles -- Top Ten Signs of Climate Change -- Spildi—Very Thin Layer of Ice on Water or Milk -- Doali—Road or track covered by snow, but still distinguishable -- Ceremony After the Wrangell Fire -- Before the World of Men and Boys, There Was the Land of Girls -- The Minister’s Wife -- Work 3 -- Portal -- Tales in Fairyland -- Opening Doors -- Flourished Too Soon -- Douglas Island Tulips -- Withered Leaves -- Signs of Spring -- Welcome to the Bush -- Allen -- IDK -- The Misfit -- Tenakee -- Dead End in West Texas -- Rob Roys' Artist Studio Sink -- Dear Sister -- Juneau 2098 -- Morning -- Author and Artist Biographies -- Salmon Heads -- The Black Wall -- Trickster -- Tensio