UAS Literary & Arts Journal

Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.Featuring the work of students, faculty, and staff of the University of Alaska Southeast and members of the community.A Note from Loren, Sometimes Known as Senior Editor -- A Letter from Josh, Affectionately Known as “Sugah” (say it with a southern accent) -- A Note from Emily Wall -- On the Move -- Dangly Jangly Things -- Taco Surf -- Midwestern Trash -- On the Distaff Side -- Christmas Joy -- The Three Little McCormicks -- Trollin’ Ray’s Brain: An Interview with Ray Troll -- His Long Coat Turning -- First Autumn -- Pinta Cove Birthday Gifts -- September Wings -- When in Rome -- Early Morning Conspiracy Theory -- Flesh Wound -- Two Ravens, Five Ways -- Shades of Brown: The Question -- Hayfield-Clarke Psychiatric Center -- Hardscrabble -- Smoked Meat Sandwiches -- Slime Squishing Through Gold: An Interview with Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- Berries -- Buds -- Grandpa Jakwteen in Eclipse -- Cross Talk -- Voices -- Trouble -- Flying Home -- Snorkeling at Hanauma Bay -- Genocide -- Raven, Saving It for Later -- Mama Abel’s -- Settling In -- Blue -- Dad at 27 -- Dad photographs mother -- Backyard theatre & Oz -- Love-in, Easter Day, 1968 -- Topanga Corral -- Swallowing Senora -- Keeping Time on the Kee Nax Trail -- Ode to Ching -- Beneath the Surface (chapter title) -- A Visit from the Wild -- Teacher’s Pets -- Centennial -- See Spot Rot -- With Salsa -- Moonbaby -- The Fine Art of Raising a Tarpaulin -- Prologue -- Epiphany 2008 -- View of Auke Lake -- Shark Fins -- Translating Pasternak -- Raven Boys -- Institutional Back Door -- Uneasy Disguise -- Christmas Wind -- The Life and Times of the Orlando Bloom Fan Club -- Writer & Artist Biographie

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

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.A Note From Kaleigh Lambert -- A Note From Thomas Bay -- A Note From Andrew Lounsbury -- A Note From Emily Wall -- Another Morning like This -- Hardest to Love -- Reasons Why Pregnancy is Not My Idea of a Good Decision -- This Year in Haiku (a poem for you) -- Clean Get-Away -- Deflection of the Racism Curve -- On Prince of Wales Island -- Frontier Justice -- Researching in the Woods -- Reading the Waves -- Burial at Sea -- Interview with Featured Artist Nicholas Galanin -- Indian River -- Tactical Warfare -- Morning Stories -- Two Times the Girl -- You Bring Out the Korean Adoptee in Me -- The Heritage of Adam -- Search Engine -- Color Guard -- Red Dogs and Onions -- Life Support -- Atonement 2009 -- Ravens Rue The Day -- King -- French Graffiti -- Love and the Immune System -- Interview with Featured Author Heather Lende -- Ruth’s Last Fairy Ride -- Sweet Caroline -- Singing Together With One Voice -- Burying Jack June 2008 -- Brigid’s light: A Break from Rain -- 7 the first time we kissed -- Me and Tui at 13 -- Sunday school -- Amber, Lydia, and John -- My Core -- Cranberry Juice-A Family Ordeal -- Brown Fat Old -- Wait -- Burning Man -- I’m no daddy’s girl -- Paper Doll -- For Poppy -- For Mammy -- Last Days of War -- Act Like a Man -- Shift Change at the Theatre -- Kotzebue Harvest -- Echo Canyon -- Knowledge -- Author & 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