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Alaska Quarterly Review

30th Anniversary, Readings, Workshops, First Friday Events

Celebrating 30 years of Great Writing

Spring and Summer 2012 issue

 

Alaska Quarterly Review premieres

the photographs and commentaries of 68 world-class photographers from 22 nations:

Liberty and Justice (For All): A Global Photo Mosaic, a tribute to photojournalists

Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who were tragically killed while covering the civil war in Libya.

 

Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 7:00 pm

Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center

 

A reception will follow the event.

 

Featured in the Program

 

Ronald Spatz, Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief, winner of two Alaska Governor’s Awards: Arts and Humanities

Benjamin J. Spatz, Guest Editor and Truman National Security Fellow

Barbara Davidson, Los Angeles Times photojournalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

David Hartman, journalist, former host of “Good Morning America” and winner of two National News and Documentary Emmy Awards

Corliss Kimmel (percussion) and Sharman Piper (Oboe), Anchorage Symphony            musicians, perform their interpretation of “Liberty and Justice (For All),a special            arrangement of “Gabriel's Oboe” by Italian composer Ennio Morricone.  They are joined by Jon Genziano (cello) and Matt O'Connor (bass).

 

Alaska Quarterly Review sponsors a monthly FIRST FRIDAYS SERIES bringing together vital, creative voices in the visual, performing, and literary arts.  Events feature local and visiting artists.

Alaska Quarterly Review co-sponsors readings and workshops that have included outstanding writers and poets such as Alan Lightman, Amy Bloom, Jane Hirshfield, N. Scott Momaday,  Francine Prose, Tracy Kidder, Richard Ford, Jane Smiley, Michael Ondaatje, Tobias Wolff, Bret Lott, Patricia Hampl, Stuart Dybek, Rosellen Brown, William Gass, Carolyn Kizer, Gary Snyder, John Haines, Alice Fulton, David Wagoner, Robin Becker, Joy Harjo, Roland Flint, William Kittridge, Paula Gunn Allen, Robert Hedin, Jim Heynen, Al Young, Valerie Miner, Gerald Vizenor, Nora Dauenhauer, Gary Holthaus, Peggy Shumaker, Bill Holm, John Straley, Richard Chiappone, Marybeth Holloman, Sherry Simpson, Richard Nelson, Mary Robison, Toi Derricotte, Alberto Rios, Olena Davis, Jerah Chadwick, Seth Kantner, Sarah Birdsall, Susie Silook, Ron Carlson and Nancy Lord, Sherman Alexie.

 

Selected Recent Readers

Spatz & Lightman
AQR Editor Ronald Spatz with Alan Lightman
 Alan Lightman, the author of Einstein’s Dreams
and a host of books of fiction and nonfiction.

Amy Bloom                 N. Scott Momaday               Sherman Alexie
Amy Bloom                            N. Scott Momaday              Sherman Alexie
Novelist and Short                    Pulitzer Prize winning             Writer, poet, and
Story Writer                             fiction writer, poet                 filmmaker
                                              and essayist

Francine Prose                  Tracy Kidder              Jane Hirshfield
Francine Prose                      Tracy Kidder                      Jane Hirshfield
Novelist, short story                  Pulitzer Prize winning            Poet and Essayist
writer, and essayist                   nonfiction writer and
                                               contributing editor,  
                                               The Atlantic Monthly

                      Richard Ford                 Michael Ondaatje  
                      Richard Ford                         Michael Ondaatje
                      Pulitzer Prize winning               Novelist, poet, essayist,  
                      fiction writer and essayist         and filmmaker   

   

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