UAS Literary & Arts Journal

Abstract

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 -- Chinatown Hotel -- Living by a Tank Farm Cradle Song -- Superfund -- June 20, 1977 -- Pipe Dreams -- 23 Camp Rules -- Facing the Wind -- Gray Peace -- Music on Troubled Waters -- Dark Smoke of Goodbye -- 1969 Anit-War Rally -- Old Canyon Studio -- Elegy -- Lifeline -- Load your Lips! -- Let’s Call this One an Origin Story -- Dirt -- Constellations -- Chemawa School Cemetery (Founded 1886) -- Unfinished Business -- Triptych, Easter 2011 -- Gardening with Elijah -- Winter Promise -- Daanaawaakh -- Morning Miracle -- Untitled -- Pets at Marks Trail -- Summer Bears -- Rie’s Song -- October Luna -- Persephone’s Return -- “Arctic Terns” -- Let’s Not Give Mind to Existentialism -- Killing the Queen -- Split Wood -- Capturing a Moment: An Interview with Patrice Helmar -- Cleanse -- Aunt Jen -- The Spoken Forest -- Love -- Things I Remember About My Dad -- September on the Cruise Ship Dock -- Potatoes -- Gray Matter -- Termination Dust -- Pick Up Lines for Poets -- The Catch -- Low Fidelity -- Icky Little Miracles -- The Geometry of Words: An Interview With Kim Heacox -- Yesterday -- Prince Rupert -- around a white man’s fire -- Once So Close -- Stasis -- Haul Out -- Heidi’s Boy -- Pearls of Wisdom -- Only Once -- Utopia -- Autumn’s Turning Colors -- Eight-Bar Screen-Door Blues -- Bloodlines -- Sky Blue Sky -- The Best Country Song She Never Wrote -- Shellscape -- She Would Never Understand His Hipster Ways -- Eagle -- Badlands -- Dryas from Ground Level -- Learning the Ropes; Lucid Memory -- Liquor Shack -- Reflecyflec -- Man Feeding Birds in Istanbul -- Real Good Heart -- Self Portrait, New England; Roald’s Hair -- Harem Wall; Roma -- Calypso; The Suitors -- Dream of the Kores -- Domestic Items -- Steel Ka -- Cast Iron Clay -- Oil and Vinegar Set; Coffee Set -- Queen of Wastelandia -- Shino Tea Set -- Sprout; Catch -- My Eyes Have Seen You -- Minuet -- Shooting Stars -- Escape Artist -- Fall Leaf; First Cast -- Caribou -- Author and Artist Biographie