UAS Literary & Arts Journal

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.Dedication -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Dear Toi -- Light like coal -- Dream Seed -- Sleepy Monk -- Hymn -- December Like a Photograph -- A Change of Horizons -- Name Please -- Breathe Deep the Leaves of Autumn -- My Father who Art in Heaven -- Does Blue Milk Really Come From Blue Cows -- In the Winter Kitchen -- Trappers' Tailings -- Eulachon on the Chilkoot -- Tulips -- Miracle -- A Message for Those Who Hate -- The Fifth Meaning: An Interview with Christy NaMee Eriksen -- AMERICAN DREAMS -- HOW A ZOMBIE MAKES A PROMISE -- BENT -- THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD -- Walking Around: Translation -- When it's Sunny in Southeast Alaska -- Autumn Binge -- A New Creation Story -- North to Kluane -- An Offering -- Rustic Encounters: An Interview with Rachael Juzeler -- Below the River's Wings -- Objects In Mirror Are Larger Than They Appear -- m -- Gone Friend Leaving -- All I Could Salvage for You -- echo -- New Neighbors -- The Whiskey Woman -- Getting God's Attention -- Shaking Hands with Beethoven -- When You Say Goodbye, Go -- Auschwitz Greening -- All the Ways that I Have Died -- Backward Progression -- Halleluiah Fire at the Wrangell Institute -- Receiving Your Name at Glacier Bay -- Traditions -- Gold Field Dreaming -- Clay Bodies -- The Chemist -- Passing Spades Playing Hearts -- Rewinding Futures -- Untitled -- Mountain 4 -- Gargirl -- Tartarus -- ballerina 1 -- robot 1 -- A Dance for a Quiet Place -- Lost in Thought -- Swiss Army Rhino -- Davy Jones' Locker -- Queen Anne's Revenge Naval Chronometer -- Mother's Ink -- Fish Mongers -- Double Shift -- Hidden Work series {recycled life drawings} -- Friend Fencepost -- Juneau Past & Present Wrenches -- Wrenches -- Axe no. 1 {red line} -- Ball Peen Hammer no. 1 {Chiton frame} -- Bones -- Shovel Chartreuse Detail -- Chisel no. 2 {Chiton frame} -- Pieces of My House no. 1 -- Fish On -- Rainforest Night -- Aurora Over Douglas Harbor -- Challenger -- Splitboarders -- DeHart's -- cow skull -- Stilled Life -- Life 'n' Death -- Writer and Artist Biographie

UAS Literary & Arts Journal

Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.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.Editor’s Note -- Acknowledgements -- “Just Throw Some Wood on me and Watch me Burn” -- “A Quiet Fire” -- Delivery -- When an Old Woman Dies… -- Primal Memories -- Woman-with-Words -- Yéil Tundatáani, Raven Thinking -- Tundatáan yák’w, Little Faces of Thought -- Dorothy’s Day -- Questions -- Tribute -- A List of Demands -- Bad Poetry -- The Serpent -- Reflections -- Leaving the outside -- The North -- Written in the Week Following a Funeral I Attended -- Capital Transit -- How to be Loved -- El Camino -- Changing Stations -- Upper-Crossing Guard Station -- Beneath Her Whiskey Breath -- The Mingling of Words: An Interview with Richard Dauenhauer -- Sugar Blues -- Sparrow Hills -- Erotic Epigrams -- Sappho: A Constellation of Fragments and Poems -- Wednesday Night -- Talk Bold to Me -- MY HEART, IN SUBWAY STATIONS -- HOW TO TELL IF A KOREAN WOMAN LOVES YOU -- PROFILE -- LIKE ANY AMERICAN MEAL -- In Search of Grandfather Clam -- Lineage -- Hope, Renewal and Herring -- Kilns, Americana, and Clay: An Interview with Jeremy Kane -- Lamb Juice Couscous -- Border Dance -- My Hands -- Finding Frank Italio -- First Flight in 1903 -- A Smell is Implied -- Bare Tales -- The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- WATCHING THE DEER -- PETERSBURG, 1974 -- A SIMPLE BEACH OF THE LAST FRONTIER -- A Palette Made from Birch -- Moving Forward -- Communion -- Becoming -- Wild Cucumber -- Genesis -- Learning Cursive: Second Grade Penmanship Lesson -- In the time before words -- Anything I can put ketchup on -- Bread Dough Memory -- Double Sestina: Elmer’s Glue Dragons -- Barbies -- His Bunk -- Poetic Memoir -- [They’re Walking Children Through…] -- How to Kill an Enemy -- Fast Ferry -- Fixer Upper | Ernest Gruening Cabin -- Two Ravens -- The Party -- Broken Heart -- Timemachinist Mark IX | Bladeous Maximus -- Aqua Ghost | Dusk -- Field in Film -- Lilac 1 -- Bling Dynasty Detail | Hot Coffee Cups | Tip Jar -- American History | Country Style | I Love Juneau -- Kentucky Fried Ceramics | Bar Story Jugs -- Diner Mugs | TCB Drink Set -- USA Ice Cream Bowls | Vintage Mustache Mugs -- Crow Jar -- Chilkat Dancer and Button Blanket Dancer -- Remembrance -- Cliffs and Baby Crow -- Sockeye Supper -- Mother’s Warmth -- Mendenhall Fireweed -- A Pause Beneath the Devil’s Club -- Fungi Fingers | Out on a Limb -- Gastineau Channel Sunrise -- Evergreen -- I’m Gone -- Night Comes Early (Eaglecrest) -- Douglas Harbour -- Pussy Willows | Fireweed Tower | Rain Drops on Lupine Leaves -- Writer and Artist Biographie