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

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 and Arts Journal 2020

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 Chancellor Richard Caulfield -- Drag Show at the Rendezvous -- Cherries -- At St. Mary’s Nursing Home -- Forest -- Spooked -- Peep Show -- Banana Bribery -- Napping Bear Cub -- Breaking of Waves -- 49 Likes -- The Lonely Cabin -- Child's Curiosity -- Sentinel -- Eyes -- Salmon Vibe Field -- Raven and Sun -- Moving Target -- Cacti Spines -- Ode to Federico García Lorca -- The Channel -- Where I’m From -- Field of Blue -- Knitting Needles -- Growing Up -- Proud -- Ferry -- Arms and Legs Rayne Billings, A Mother's Love and Companion -- Not Quite Helena -- Crossing Time Helena -- The Moose Debi Knight -- Smoke Drifts In -- The Good Old Days -- Hunting Frozen Bones -- Wishbone -- Replacing the Window -- Bridge on Perseverance Trail -- Flashes of Fish -- Hooligan -- Cacti Envy -- Layers of Time -- The Rock -- Rock, Paper, Cedar -- Seasonal Scripts -- Dusky Muskeg -- White Noise -- Perseverance Trail -- Roots -- Spending Time with Roth -- Beach Gnar -- For Michelle -- Poem Riding Around on the Bus -- Ravens in the Mist -- Ballet in the Locker Room -- K'wach, Fly Me to the Moon -- Full Sincere Apologies -- Rain -- Between the Worlds --Featured Writer Mo Longworth Interviewed -- Blue Ticket: Ferries/Fairies Out of Alaska (Excerpt) Scenes 11 & 12 -- Water Ripples Across Haines -- Featured Artist Pat Race Interviewed by Kelsey Walsh -- Clouds Never Look Like Clouds -- Paper Crane -- Winter on Front -- Don't Step on the Fish; Conversation Starter; River Bear Moon Bear; Exploded Salmon -- My Friend Aaron -- Perspective -- Sandy Beach Sunrise -- Following the School Bus -- I Grew Up -- Mountain Love -- American Mother -- Lóol -- Portents -- Like Plath’s Blackberries -- Our Caesarean -- Monitoring Program -- The Perched Shadow -- Job’s Wife -- Now, on a Sunday Morning in Early September -- Apartment View -- Excessive Tenderness -- Heartstrings -- Petra -- A Clutch of Eggs -- Parallel Dimension -- The Hunt -- Stand Strong -- What the Body Remembers -- The Channel -- I am from -- Talkeetna Sunflower -- Betting on Long Shots -- The Beatitudes -- Diving into the Wreck -- Undercurrent -- Blowdown in the Tongass -- Blossom from Mud -- Weathering -- The Channel -- Seascape At Dawn -- SE Pudding -- I take mental snapshots and photographs -- My childhood tastes like -- Chicago -- Purple Promises -- Morning Meditation Group -- Untitled -- These Hands -- Of Great Holiness -- Whale Moot -- A letter to the universe -- Gray Beauty -- The Morning Before Boudoir -- Raven Transforms Into the -- Data Stream -- Writers' Biographies -- Artists' Biographies -- Swimming Together -- Mower -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgement

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

UAS Literary & Arts Journal 2021

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 to Alaska's frontline workers -- Nana’s Quilt -- Summer Solstice -- Continuous Juneau -- Winter Light -- Ski Lungs -- Skunk Cabbage Tension -- All Our Landforms Up For Sale -- Shifting -- Summer Snow -- Ebb -- Night Covers The Pond with Its Wings -- Sheltered In Place -- To a Golden-crowned Kinglet -- Blind Faith -- Ocean Glow -- Alpenglow -- Sick at Heart -- Eyelashes -- Tent’s Collective Memory -- Golden Feathers -- Heart as a burning state -- Glowing Harvest -- Before Snow Flies -- Portrait of a Pandemic Puppy -- Elect Moonlight -- The Last Leaf -- Reference Station -- A Cloudy Delicacy -- Forest Service -- Death and Promises -- Overlooking -- Among the Deserted Moss -- Medicinal -- Shadow Scratchers -- Harvest -- The Masked Wanderers -- Halloween Madness -- Preserving Self: Quarantine Thoughts -- Haines Wild Lupin -- Natural Selection -- The Broommaker’s Son -- Untitled -- Message in a Bottle -- Beat -- Anchor Point -- Every Spot We Are Standing On Was Once in a Different Place -- The Whale -- Whale Watching -- Center of Gravity: Hank Lentfer Featured Author Interview -- Neurons -- Not Quite a Love Triangle -- Window -- Winter Light -- 10 Sounds That Make You Feel More Alive Lily Hope, Featured Artist Interview -- Poems During a Pandemic: Dear Cello -- Poems During a Pandemic: Sense of Smell -- A Fed Bear is a Dead Bear -- Poems During a Pandemic: Friendly Fathom -- Red Tail Pandemic Pal -- Butterflies in a Jar -- Raven -- Signs Off -- Flora -- Waxwing Thanksgiving -- Flour, Butter, Sugar, Art -- Kids on the Trampoline -- Beaver Nemesis -- Cold Snap -- Winter Light -- Traveler -- The Inconvenience of Waffles -- Five Days Before the Election -- Counting -- Spiraling Through the Wormhole -- Grace -- Untitled -- Three Weddings and a Virus -- Peacock -- A Drowning -- Night -- Planning Ahead -- Handiwork -- Tongass: Wildlife -- The Cost of Childhood Resilience -- Glaciology -- Echo Ranch -- Stirring up Memories -- Gleaning Blueberries -- PBJ for Dan -- Charles River -- Chinook in the Reeds -- Ephemeral -- The Side You Never See -- Indelibility -- I Serve You Soup in Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall -- Writers' Biographies -- Artists' Biographies -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgement

UAS Literary and Arts Journal 2019

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 Dr. Sol Neely -- Little Salmon Lake -- Distorted Self-Reflection -- Of Alderaan -- Beachcomber -- The babysitter’s special -- Lichen -- I Grew Up Shelving Tackle -- Housekeeping -- Untitled -- Hydrangea -- Evergreen Cemetery, mid-Spring -- Holy Rivers -- Up The Stream -- Syncing Salmon -- Salmon Yunomi -- Sunset Solitaire -- Abbreviated Formalities -- Ritual -- Landfalls: Dedications to Alaskan Women Writers and Storytellers: There are moments that keep themselves in our memories (for Ernestine Saankalaxt' Hayes) -- Artist Biographies -- With it, we are joined, and continue (for Joan Naviyuk Kane) Ambient Noise (for Vivian Faith Prescott) -- Untitled -- They prefer oatmeal -- A baked potato -- Veil of Secrets -- Bury These Stories -- The Spoken Forest -- Tree of Life—a rewrite -- The Spoken Neighborhood Christopher “LC” Gonzales, -- Untitled --What God Said on the Radio Today -- Vegetarian Alaskan -- Chasing Raindrops -- Who Are You -- Recipe for Catching Starlight -- Southeast Mountain -- Untitled -- Typewriters and Tobacco -- Above Gastineau Channel -- Beaches -- The Monster -- Canal Beginning -- What if my rapist was a Supreme Court Justice? -- Hong Kong Club -- Where I’m From -- Dandelion Friends -- One Square Inch -- Native Love Poem -- Bear Mask and Raven Headress -- Wilbur Window -- Untitled -- Still They Shine -- Bringing Her to The Shrine of St. Therese -- Featured Writer X'unei Lance Twitchell Interview -- Cutting the Fog -- Headlands Center for the Arts in the Marin Park -- Release -- Ax Tláa Ax Een Akanik Noojín -- Láx’ Haa Kináa Wdikeen -- X'unei Lance Twitchell -- Kill All Natives (K.A.N.) -- Lynx -- Frequently asked questions about Climate Change -- Featured Artist Wayne Price, Master Carver Interview -- Fifty Shades of Gray -- Broken Bridge at the End of the Perseverance Trail -- Grey Areas -- Fixated on the Lights --Braid of Recognition -- My Dad Taught Me -- My Escape --I am From -- Yaakoosgé Daakahídi -- Kake -- Winner of the 2019 Mac Behrend’s Award for Creative Writing -- Trash to Treasure -- Beach Home -- Gathering Again -- Visit With My Mother -- Mixed Bouquet of Flowers -- Take a Good Look -- Mud Shark Evolving -- I Was Raped Yesterday -- Artist Biographies -- Squid Contact -- Port Town -- Visitation -- The Mountains Are Alive Elise Tomlinson, Misty Lupine Forest -- Traveling in Korea with Walt Whitman -- Rainy State Haikus -- Tweety -- Where We Intersect -- Tenakee Springs -- 10 Ways of Looking at the Sea -- Skiff in Orange and Blue -- Sunbathing -- Changing Lanes -- Proper Attire -- Forty Years -- Forgery -- Seasons of Color -- Eat More (W)hole Foods -- When It’s Raining -- Skinny Dipping -- Our Yellow Kitchen -- Gratitude must not be hurried (On the occasion of your twenty-first birthday) -- Sunrise Poppies -- Liberating Silverware -- You Are Precious (Plaque at Sayéik, Gastineau Community School, Douglas) - Writer Biographies -- Tree of Life—a rewrite -- Artist Biographies -- The Eye of the Fox -- Editor's Note -- Writer Biographies -- Acknowledgement