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.
