Join Dianne Bilyak on Friday as she reads from her memoir Nothing Special at the North Kingstown Free Library! Register to see her from 6:00-7:30 at the #linkinbio. #memoir #library #rhodeisland
Annie Wenstrup
@akwenstrup.bsky.social
Dena’ina poet. The Museum of Unnatural Histories, Wesleyan University Press, March 2025. Here for the fish.
Our virtual event for the GetLit Festival in Spokane is live on YouTube! We talked about glaciers, death, lineage, cartoons, and more. With @akwenstrup.bsky.social, @pataky.bsky.social, & Susanna Mishler & John Messick. #AlaskaSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkuz...
Authors of Alaska | Get Lit! Virtual Event
YouTube video by EWU's Get Lit! Programs
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"I have a gift for mimesis / I've been told." 😊 Ha, yes!!! And what a gift! You all GOT to step into this museum & take a tour (I loved every bit of it!): The Museum of Unnatural Histories by @akwenstrup.bsky.social (@weslpress.bsky.social, 2025) 😍💖😍 #poetry 📚💙 #NationalPoetryMonth
![Excerpt from The Museum of Unnatural Histories HR Guide
[following text is in a box]
Policies and Procedures
IX.
When providing interpretive text for images where the subjects are not named. The Curator of the Museum of Unnatural Histories follows best practices, as outlined below:
1. Wrestle with the naming.
2. Refuse the label anonymous.
3. Ask, without irony, what's left.
4. The naming.
5. Memorize her face.
6. Remember you are a creature
7. soft and tender.
8. remember: names are only part of love.
9. Make an offering.
10. Your struggle is not the offering.
11. The only offering is tenderness.
12. Name once known by those that beheld her.
13. Make an offering.
14. Call her Precious.
15. Call her Beloved.
For further assistance please contact your mom, a close friend, or your mentor. The Department of Policies and Procedures is unavailable for assistance on this matter.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zdfxqin2sdxjsbsmrcjuqbw4/bafkreibpmmegmp7tmrdvno3dtzqpitije3jlmh4bhjhijy3gqzdezhxrca)
![Self-Portrait as Jackson Pollock
You'll need a ladder to see
this one
in its entirety. One
with four steady legs.
The kind that won't
wobble when you stand
on the step below
the top one that warns
you not to step any higher.
You'll need to risk the final step
to see this one.
I don't make the rules.
I only make the mess
that's said to be art
but looks exactly
like a mess.
I have a gift for mimesis,
I've been told.
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Before the mind, the heart
resumes
its beating.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zdfxqin2sdxjsbsmrcjuqbw4/bafkreicfjucjgmnf4fovxc3hohsjrnfkmqwlzyq7n5y4lxqpfp6tmu3gzq)
I loved reading this profile of my friend and mentor Dr. Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social. Sarah Manriquez does a beautiful job of capturing why Jen is a fantastic researcher and teacher: her curiosity and her commitment to seeing the world differently. www.uaf.edu/cla/news/202...
Who Gets to Tell Alaska’s Story?
Who tells Alaska’s story? Jennifer Schell examines Arctic narratives, ethics, and representation in science, film, and ecology.
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Please consider nominating poetry! I’m very excited to see poetry in the major awards right now!
Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 6mo agoYour Hugo Nominating ballot can make a difference. There are a total of 7718 people with the right to cast a nominating ballot in the 2026 Hugo Awards. As of this morning, 1293 of those people have cast a nominating ballot in at least one category. www.lacon.org/hugos/
This week, Guest Editor Claudia Santos has selected “Maybe the Body” by Asa Drake as this week’s #BestDressed pick! https://sundressblog.com/2026/04/08/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-maybe-the-body-by-asa-drake-3/
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Surabhi Balachander on Instagram: "Joan Naviyuk Kane, with snow pouring southward past the window (2026) I’ve read most of Joan Naviyuk Kane’s poetry collections, and I think this is my favorite one—...
33 likes, 2 comments - surabhi.reading on February 25, 2026: "Joan Naviyuk Kane, with snow pouring southward past the window (2026) I’ve read most of Joan Naviyuk Kane’s poetry collections, and I thi...
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I read an ARC of Ibe Liebenberg’s Birds at Night (@ttupress) at the beginning of the year. How lucky to have his language as a companion all year. M
Amber McCrary Blue Corn Tongue (@azpress) made me laugh out loud right before it made me cry multiple times. I love how the speaker’s rich interiority is mirrored by their careful observations of the more than human world.
I love that Poets and Writers editor India Lena González invited each debut poet to recommend works by other debut writers. The gaps and reworkings/re-recordings in Abi Pollokoff’s night myths ** before the body (@redhenpress) invite the reader to linger with each poem.
More recommendations! I love that Poets and Writers editor India Lena González invited each debut poet to recommend works by other debut writers. You can read more about Kalehua and Mele in the newest issue of Poets and Writers where she’s featured on their 10 Best Debut Poets.
I love that @poetswritersinc asked about my favorite 2025 releases. Even more, I love that India let me recommend Sarah Pape’s 2024 Forgive the Animal (@cornerstone.press). So gorgeous! Sarah’s currently selling signed copies + the beautiful totes in the final image, contact her for more details!
Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
Anchorage readers, this Saturday stop by and say hello! I’ll be at Title Wave from 12-3 signing copies of The Museum of Unnatural Histories.
Hi all! Nice time to support Native writers during Native American Heritage Month with 40% off my book #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II when you order through UW Press website and use the code WINTER25 Quyaana! uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Alaska Native Resilience
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamationThe US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defens...
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University of Washington Press@uwapress.uw.edu · 10mo ago📢 The annual UW Press Holiday Sale is here! November 17, 2025–January 2, 2026, get 40% off and free domestic shipping on all books sitewide with promo code WINTER25 at checkout. Start browsing: bit.ly/UWPressHolidaySale2025
ALOCASIA is honored to be holding two nights of virtual readings to benefit the Western Alaska Relief Fund, to support communities impacted by the recent typhoon. There is a suggested $10-25 donation. We hope to see you there, and hope you'll spread the word! Find out more: bit.ly/linkedhearts...
@jenniferschell16.bsky.social So good! Your paper and Slash/Back!
Jennifer Schell@jenniferschell16.bsky.social · 10mo agoSo happy to publish an essay in this collection! It's called: "Alien Invasion and Multispecies Justice: Representations of Circumpolar Ecosystems in Contemporary Inuit Sci-Fi Horror Cinema." I wrote it b/c I really wanted more people to see Slash/Back. Watch it! It's really good!
Native American History Month is the perfect time for non-Indigenous writers and scholars to stop referring to Indigenous belief systems and stories as “folklore” and “myth.”
February 5, 2026 | 7-9pm Cameron Awkward-Rich, @sadqueer4life.bsky.social, Chet’la Sebree, and @akwenstrup.bsky.social February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
Happy to help share the news of the Literary Arts Fund launch today and to serve as its executive director. More here: literaryartsfund.org
Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
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Literary Arts Fund@literaryartsfund.bsky.social · 10mo agoToday, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
Write a critical essay with me this Saturday! 🥰
Tin House@tinhouse.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn this generative workshop, we’ll cover essential elements of long and short form reviews, with a special focus on essay-length reviews. We’ll also address practical aspects of writing criticism including finding a home for your critical essay, and much more! Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/fall...
If there was ever a time that we need Indigenous stories told in our own language & imbued with our values - that time is NOW. It is with great honor & humility that we will premiere our short #TwoOldWomen film at #HIFF45 w/ our Kanaka relatives. 🙏🏽 Mahsi’choo to author #VelmaWallis for her support!
Maybe the Body by Asa Drake, forthcoming from Tinhouse
'Miserable': Hundreds sheltering in Western Alaska schools in dire conditions alaskapublic.org/news/environ... 👉🏾 bit.ly/help4wak
'Miserable': Hundreds sheltering in Western Alaska schools in dire conditions
The state is evacuating the vulnerable and trying to find safe shelter for all. “We're moving as fast as we can,” the incident commander said. “We know that folks are miserable.”
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I have a new record coming out October 24th called "Live Like the Sky" and this is the first video by Inuk filmmaker asinnajaq. Filmed in Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet), Inukjuak, Tiotia:ke (Montreal), Pittsburgh & Philadelphia.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Murder of Crows
YouTube video by youvechangedrecords
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I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
Opinion | How I Ran Afoul of the Air Force Academy
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In July I had the pleasure of collaborating with @heideerdrich.bsky.social and Kim Blaeser on a poem inspired by Sky Hopinka’s work. You can watch us read the poem on YouTube and read the text at MoMA Magazine youtu.be/SBReR5dkaXU?...
In Na Po Poets on Spirit Lines in Words and Images
YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art
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