UAS Literary & Arts Journal

Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.The 2015 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.Dedication -- Editor’s Note -- Mid-Air -- Acknowledgements -- Salmon (Gohan Desu Yo/It’s Dinner Time) -- Xwaayeenák Richard Dauenhauer -- Loon -- Burney Falls -- Richard Dauenhauer -- Egg Carton Fox -- August Afternoon at Helle’s Pool, Vancouver, Washington -- Oak Run -- Buddy Tabor teaches me to filet a halibut -- Icelander -- Home -- Season’s End -- Young Me, Old Me -- The Window Seat -- Wind -- UAS Student Back Study -- Paintbrush Conversations -- Grey River Soulshine -- Across the Universe -- Aurora-Skaters’ Cabin 1 -- Whiskey and Autumn -- Leaf Wolf -- Spring Cleaning the Perennials -- Ode to a Rose -- Final Point -- After Spring Recital -- Olympic Ceiling -- Rodda-Hard going (too little snow) -- Birch Bark Calligraphy No. 2 -- Fishtailing -- Working the Corks -- Modern Alaskan Storyteller: An Interview with Ishmael Hope -- Bailer at the Back of the Boat (Excerpt) -- Close Up -- Bothering the Dauenhauers -- In Memory of Andrew Hope III -- Wolf Brimhat -- I Am From -- Crossing -- Revelations and Realizations -- The Shrinking Girl -- Untitled (Andi in Niki’s Room) -- Afternoon Reading, Rainy Room -- My Grandmother’s House in Metlakatla -- Deacon Charles Rohrbacher, Icon of St. Nicholas -- Honoring Tibet -- Fumi Matsumoto: Finding Art in Culture -- Pathway of Thorns -- Minidoka Interlude -- Mountain Dew Parrots -- Watch Out for Falling Objects -- Loose Change -- An Unkind Demise -- A Place That Holds Names -- Immortality (skull side) -- Opening Again the Box of Wisdom -- Iff’n I Go -- Colorless Blues -- The Heartsdance -- King of Dreams -- Hungering -- Colonialism -- Inside Out -- Rachel Day -- Lying Here -- Note to Wife -- Death -- Round the Clock -- Untitled (trap) -- Seeds of Racism -- Auschwitz Remembrance -- Moab 1 -- Pearl of the Orient -- Moab 3 -- Scars -- Transporting -- In Eliason Harbor -- Poet Passes: Leaves Words Behind -- Tough Guy -- Wolf Helmet -- Biographie

UAS Literary & Arts Journal

Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.The 2016 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.a heart is a heavy burden -- Editor’s Note -- Acknowledgements -- Always a Pause -- Untitled -- Mishima Teabowls -- Mint Tea and Red Wine -- The Dry Winter Scent of Prairies -- Northern Sunrise -- Musical Theory in a Falling Tree -- Jumbo Lookout -- The Shape of an Echo -- Wonderwall -- It’s Difficult [excerpt from the poem “Marissa”] -- Yéil x’us.eetí Raven Footprints -- táakw winter -- King Fisher -- Bear -- A Dandelion by its own Name -- Migrations -- Untitled -- They Named Her Driftwood -- Kissing in the Rain -- Waltz of the Flowers: Anna and Company -- Sun Catcher -- Porcelain Curtains -- The River -- Kathleen Lake -- A Living Tapestry -- Red Cedar Tlingit Haida Weave -- Skinned -- Survivor -- Auke Lake Lights -- Aurora Chasers -- Emma Afloat -- I Can’t Sleep -- The Ghost I’m Left With -- Framed Memories -- Tequila, Sweat, and Prayers -- The Alchemical Marriage -- A New New Hope -- each dream practice -- Clouds -- Seasons Change and the Waters Run On -- John Muir -- Salmon Speaks -- A Place That Holds Names -- Untitled -- Salmon Spirit Chest, Connected (box) -- The Language of Weaving: Featured Artist Dr. Teri Rofkar -- Nome, Alaska -- Drained -- I’m From -- Srevlla—The state of things where the spring snow is so soft that one sinks into it. -- Reflections -- Txamsem -- Post-Glacial Rebound -- Dressed in Garlands -- Learning the Dance -- Shamrocks -- When You See Me -- Water Spirit -- To Speak for Restraint, for Wildness, for Beauty: Featured Writer Aleria Jensen -- Young Eagle -- Untitled (detail) -- Baula -- Airport Dike Trail Evening -- Ninja Meatballs -- Untitled -- In the Wild Without Child: One Mother’s Invitation to Self -- Whale Tail Vista -- Questions for Anemones -- Yellow Cedarbark Wool on Starfish Pot -- Gleaming Orange and Pissed -- Through the Sky She Comes -- Love for the Honeybee -- The Last Speaker -- Juneau Fireweed -- Judy Plays the Tuba -- Illuminated Juneau -- Airport Dike Trail Moonlight -- Escape -- A Wooden Mother -- Black and Whites -- an excuse for staying indoors (a working title for a work in progress) -- Insecurities -- Lake Farm -- Yew Bear -- Rupture -- Mendenhall Glacier -- The Rookery -- Transient -- Laminaria -- Untitled -- Querencia -- Hoard -- Untitled -- Small Birds Sign -- Selfie at Two -- Entropy -- Goodbye -- Sitka Bridge -- My Remedy -- S1 -- Delta Symbols Static -- Falling -- Breathe Deeply -- Drum, drum away -- Eaglefest Dancer -- Wasichana -- Writer & Artist Biographie