Congrats to Joan Naviyuk Kane on being a finalist for the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award. If you're not her reader, read her. Joan is an accomplished Iñupiaq poet from Alaska who has authored nine books—never far from reach, around here.

No shame, dog-earers!

Can't wait to hear from these great writers this Wednesday as we launch COMPASS LINES. Doors at 5, reading featuring Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, Tom Kizzia, and John Messick starts at 6 PM at the Rabbit Box Theatre. Party runs later. Free. Hope to see you! #awp23 offsite

Swing by booth 1307 today between 1:30 and 3:30 to meet COLD MOUNTAIN PATH author @tomkizzia! He'll be signing and yarning. You can also learn about @permafrostmagazine and the U Alaska Fairbanks MFA program. #AWP23

Today’s the official pub date for COMPASS LINES by John Messick. If you’re near Bellingham, come see him read tomorrow at Village Books, Wednesday the 15th at 7!

These birds'll head toward Russia's Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean soon for summer. We spotted them (and swans) in WA's Skagit County making our own way back north after time in Washington. Trading greenish grass covered in snow geese for brown ground buried in snow...

REMEMBER, written by Joy Harjo and illustrated by me, releases tomorrow! This was a very special collab and I can’t wait for it to take wing. ✨ Published by Random House Children's Books

Tonight in Anchorage

Two weeks from tonight in Anchorage

Looking for non-fiction bks for children/teens, written by Native people, about Native people? Take a look at the list at American Indians in Children's Literature! (And please RT/share the list.) …ansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/native-nonfi…

Grateful to see (online; no hard copy here in McCarthy!) a positive review of COMPASS LINES in today's Anchorage Daily News written by former Alaska State Writer Laureate Nancy Lord, author of Fishcamp and Rock, Water, Wild, and many more. adn.com/arts/books/202…

Tonight at WritersBlockAK! 6 pm, John Messick

Circa 1983-1997 unidentified woman using a tram to cross the Kennicott River. Photo by Fran Durner, longtime Anchorage newspaper photographer. Does anyone know where she is, how she's doing these days? Via Anchorage Museum. #alaskahistory #Alaska

Thanks for your support, @madronabooks!

The Goods in Soldotna, AK will host an author dinner with John Messick, on May 12, 2023. The Middle Eastern feast will feature local lamb from Poiema Farm, falafel, Alaska barley flatbread, and more. Dinner, dessert, and reading is $55 at bit.ly/messick-dinner

Speaking of astrophysics & stale beer, Salon published a COMPASS LINES excerpt from our new title by John Messick. Check out the adaptation of the longer essay about polar research at the South Pole—a good book preview, and a break from geopolitics.

Thank you, Bill B.! Glad you enjoyed the book

Tom Kizzia expands on that “secret government undertaking aimed at finding peacetime excuses for setting off nuclear bombs” in COLD MOUNTAIN PATH. Agents came to Kennecott in '59 to study the idea of using nukes to flood the mine and electrolysis to extract copper from the water.

"Barbie" reminds me that we need an Oscar category for best use of fonts.

Our Montana roots stir with excitement because John Messick will be in Missoula soon as a Montana Book Festival author and presenter. If you’re in the area, track him down! Catch him on stage Sept. 7th... and either way, read his book COMPASS LINES: Journeys Toward Home