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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ALASKA Matches Found: 82 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADRIFT, by MARK ROZEMA Poem Source First Line: He rides west into the chukchi sea Last Line: Where there is no bottom, %there is no shore Subject(s): Alaska; Religion AFTER THE PLANE CRASH, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: My second day in the hospital Last Line: I thought, and looked harder, %taking every little last thing in Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Healing; Hospitality; Miracles; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival ALASKA, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: With thy rugged, ice-girt shore Last Line: With his corn and wine. Subject(s): Alaska; Sleep ALASKA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ice built, ice bound, and ice bounded! Last Line: Down this unfinished world. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Alaska Purchase (1867) ALASKA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone rang in the middle of the fairbanks night and was always a Last Line: The beer is on us. Subject(s): Alaska; Dreams; Quilts; Sleep; Telephones; Nightmares ALASKA, by EDMUND SKELLINGS Poem Source First Line: I suppose it was the picture of frenchie Last Line: I suppose it was the picture of frenchie Subject(s): Alaska ALASKA'S NATIVE SON, by HATTIE M. D'ORSAY Poem Text First Line: Would you know a little fellow Last Line: "he's a better boy than many, ""gunga din""!" Subject(s): Alaska AN ARCTIC VISION [JUNE 20, 1867], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the short-legged esquimaux Last Line: See the real magician's hammer. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Alaska Purchase (1867); United States - History ANECDOTES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: She was fifteen, no mother Last Line: The fire %went out. In the morning %the baby was dead Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ARAB AND JEW IN ALASKA, by GREGORY ORFALEA Poem Source First Line: Two sons of sem, called by an unknown Last Line: And alone. Someday, again, %home Subject(s): Alaska; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews ARCTIC THUMB, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Perk's job: to teach college science and math Last Line: Plus greenhouse tomatoes, zucchinis, peas. %working the elements, he prevailed by degrees Subject(s): Arctic; Nome, Alaska; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges AT THE EDGE OF THE RING IN KOTZEBUE, ALASKA, by GEORGE KAZEPIS Poem Source First Line: A fight I witnessed possessed its own effluvium Last Line: Within a ring of tundra thirty miles above %the arctic circle Subject(s): Alaska; Quarrels BABYSITTING, ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: In gambell, where the natives speak Last Line: Nowhere else can we go, so we sit %with love, and look after our own' Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages; Nome, Alaska; Tongues BETTY'S IGLOO, A BED & BREAKFAST, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Outside, backfiring four-wheelers Last Line: In the baskets of fruit and cheese, %origami geese that fold into swans Subject(s): Guests; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges BIG VILLAGE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Nome's front street, the manhattan Last Line: A face blank and cold %as the moon at minus ten Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Villages BIG-LITTLE TOWN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Next time you ride to the airport Last Line: So much, learned so much, done %so much for others? Rejoice. Subject(s): Air Travel; Commuters; Nome, Alaska; Towns; Travel BOARD OF TRADE SALOON, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: 5 p.M., shuffling west Last Line: An icy view that portends %the nome night's violence Subject(s): Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter BRAIN BRUISED, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Like gray space, or lake confused Last Line: Ah, to be a cat, you think. %to experience, and shed, this life too Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Bruises; Dreams; Nome, Alaska CLASS PARTY, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Fourteen people, eight sites Last Line: I'd written for those who had dropped, %who had earlier dismissed themselves Subject(s): Eskimos; Exchange Students; Music And Musicians; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GLACIER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: At one of its sources the river Last Line: And our swift journeys beneath the stars Subject(s): Alaska; Glaciers; Ice; Pacific Ocean; Tourists; Travel CONCUSSED, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: There was no oh god, oh shit Last Line: That makes us human reentered %and found me brain-bruised survivor Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Bruises; Nome, Alaska; Survival DECEMBER 26, WALES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, christmas. Today, blizzard Last Line: Today, blizzard. Time for patience. Tomorrow, less wind, a settling into light Subject(s): Love; Nome, Alaska DREAMING OF CRAB, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: One night in nome Last Line: The crustaceans will sink, %at peace among their own Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nome, Alaska; Sleep EDNA BAY, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day the men pulled a house off float logs Last Line: See sheets of thin ice floating out in the bay. Subject(s): Alaska; Fish & Fishing EMERGENCY ROOM, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Glasses part-crooked,-bent Last Line: My thank-you. A good doctor, %he expected no further answer Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nome, Alaska; Physicians; Writing And Writers EVENING OF LOCAL POETRY SPONSORED BY THE NOME ARTS COUNCIL, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A spread of reindeer, moose Last Line: We eat and drink as simply Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets EXIT PAPERS, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I scrawled a few lines Last Line: Nearing the long-sought %beauty of home Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Writing And Writers EYE OF THE COLD, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: First-time nome visitors see history Last Line: An impenetrable flux of culture and trash- %into winter's dark mirror of gold Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Tourists; Travel; Winter FLIGHT OUT, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Buckling yourself into your aisle seat Last Line: And at last your own aircraft begins to roll Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Nome, Alaska GNOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Comic, odd, unlikely, slow Last Line: Two, into a handsome man opening a chest, %pulling out heart, soul, every wish Subject(s): Ghosts; Laughter; Nome, Alaska; Supernatural HIS MISSION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas not for gain of glittering gold he trod Last Line: On colder hearts to coin! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Alaska; Missions & Missionaries I JOKES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: In nome we say I jokes Last Line: In nome we say I jokes %at the end of a joke. I jokes Subject(s): Comedy; Eskimos; Jokes; Laughter; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska IF NOT, by LAURA CARTER Poem Source First Line: I have recently begun to Last Line: That money grows on the spruce trees, love on the vines Subject(s): Alaska; Travel IN THE ANCHOR TAVERN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: That next week, when I stopped in the anchor Last Line: Crashed into a hill. Walking dead man. %nome's walking dead man. There he goes' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Life; Nome, Alaska; Survival INNER NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: This spirit road of ghost Last Line: And rich, the sun in love, %past everything but source Subject(s): Eskimos; Love; Memory; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska INTO THE WHITE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The young siberian yupik woman from savoonga Last Line: February full moon she walked out of the village %far onto the sea of ice. The wind with her Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Schools; Single People; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges INUPIAT BLOOD, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Drunk, you chose sudden lust Last Line: By fate, you'd teach the algebra of x and y, the cruel probability of z Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers IRMA, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Wolf to me is warm ruff over parka Last Line: God shorts all people-that's how %we learn to love. Why we need family Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets JANUARY FLIGHT: NOME TO KOTZEBUE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: On that half-hour hop Last Line: As my shadow flapped %and shot into day Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Nome, Alaska; Sky; Travel LITTLEST HOUSE IN ALL OF TELLER, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Though invited in, I begged off Last Line: How his soul demanded beauty, %how his vision sought a home Subject(s): Love; Nome, Alaska; Teaching And Teachers MIDNIGHT, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The time one day bleeds Last Line: That taps a vein, drains %juice, transfuses Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska MISSIONARY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: One in a billion, I would say Last Line: A team of survivors hunting, %dreaming, gathering the edge Subject(s): Missionaries And Missions; Nome, Alaska; Travel MOVING SALE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The maintenance man bought the computer Last Line: In the living room as a memento: %I'd walked into and out of sixty below Subject(s): Moving And Movers; Nome, Alaska NAME?, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Who know, with a little luck Last Line: By writing you, inhabiting you, %trashing you, releasing you Subject(s): Eskimos; Heaven; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Writing And Writers NINE PIECES OF PAPER, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Down to nine pieces of paper, ken Last Line: Of blank sheets. And scribbled beneath %the label lois, this is your chance Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers NOME BYPASS ROAD, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The freak november of no snow Last Line: Of a limitless universe %and I was cycling, thrilled Subject(s): Eskimos; Frost; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter NOME CALENDAR, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Minus twenty, little wind, my dawdle Last Line: By timelessness, I began to enter %an easier, more human season Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers; Winter NOME CELEBRITY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Two years writing, teaching Last Line: How others watched, and whispered. %I let drunks touch me for luck Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Nome, Alaska; Survival; Writing And Writers NOME HOOFER, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Hello central! I rewind the tape Last Line: To plow straight ahead my slow talky way. %good-bye hoofer. The town's all yours Subject(s): Farewell; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska NOME INDUSTRY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Along the bering sea coast Last Line: To a dark and vast computer- %driven wilderness: the office Subject(s): Factories; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Nome, Alaska NOME MAGISTRATE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Bloodshot eyes bulging like some odd Last Line: The dawn for those few proud inupiat %music lovers distant and pure as space Subject(s): Guitars; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska NOME NEWSPAPERMAN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: From across the street, I raise my camera Last Line: About-face, pulls open the door, and disappears %inside to report the latest casualty Subject(s): Newspapers; Nome, Alaska; Television - Interviewing; Writing And Writers NOME POST OFFICE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Here where a cold july rain Last Line: At dawn. Fine, I replied, knowing %I had forever. And forever was now Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter NOME TROOPER, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Baby-faced and bald, he wandered bush alaska Last Line: Caught a plain round moon too simple to believe Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska PLANE WRECK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mine was this easy. Flying Last Line: My plane wreck was this easy. %his illness and fear were not Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Fear; Flight; Friendship; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska POETRY READING, BREVIG MISSION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Likely lured by a twenty-dollar cash prize Last Line: Little, adorable, three-month-old girl's %savings for college and career Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry Readings; Schools; Teaching And Teachers POLAR BAR, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: As my student, nick, rose Last Line: He was off to the board of trade %and would haunt the bar until close Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers POST-CRASH PAPERWORK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, when asked Last Line: I answered, 'publisher %or muse, your choice' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival RAVEN BOAT, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: The rapids are very scary Last Line: When they awaited the schooner Subject(s): Alaska; Boats; Native Americans; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages RESOLUTION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The first january day I wake Last Line: I'll bury you in a drift, molly. %your blood will come with me Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Resolutions RUNAWAY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Pretty if you like the mix Last Line: Into a noon darkness %spilled with beer Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Eskimos; Friendship; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska SHORTY'S FIDDLE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: My first nome sunday, harry north, sr Last Line: Mad him groan as I slid up the strings, %harry north, sr., wicked puppet Subject(s): Home; Nome, Alaska SID'S JOURNAL CHECK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Read out loud, sid ordered, pointing Last Line: I became one more anonymous white woman %to be hated with the rest of the landscape Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers SMALL PLANES NEAR NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: For fifty years Last Line: Who boards that plane %will never return Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Eskimos; Loss; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska SMART GIRL, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Turning fourteen, the oldest, you learn Last Line: Then back to school, a sophomore Subject(s): Girls; Health; Mothers; Nome, Alaska SUMMER MATANUSKA, by LYDIA MAY KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: A subtle something in the air Last Line: Dear matanuska land! Subject(s): Alaska SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A rich alaskan inventor friend subscribes Last Line: So help me god, the times is the pulp %of some king fool genius fictioneer Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; New York Times (newspaper); Nome, Alaska SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup. Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism THE LAST FRONTIER, by MRS. HOWARD E. ZEHM Poem Text First Line: As the evening shadows are falling Last Line: "for he was a part of the ""last frontier." Subject(s): Alaska THE MALAMUTE DOG OF ALASKA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Thou, ruler and slave of the frozen plain! Last Line: The snow-halls on valhalla's height. Subject(s): Alaska; Animals; Hunting; Wilderness; Wolves; Hunters THIRD STREET, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A sign of my own past's big wreck Last Line: Then raise a cigarette butt %to her shadowy lips Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cold; Death; Nome, Alaska THIS DARK WATER, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reading in another man's book Subject(s): Alaska TO AN ALASKAN GLACIER, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cloud world sweeps Subject(s): Alaska; Nature TO THE GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW IN ALASKA, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, minstrel of these borean hills Last Line: Between thy home and mine. Subject(s): Alaska; Nature; Sparrows TRAIL MAKERS, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: North and west along the coast among the misty islands Subject(s): Alaska TWIN DRAGON LUNCH, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: At my last nome meal Last Line: Two torchlights flared. %sobered, we shone Subject(s): Books; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Teaching And Teachers VICTIM, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Once admitted, I gave up my wallet Last Line: Clearing sky, spring-like weather, %and mount the brilliant far heights Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers VILLAGE FIDDLE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I toted my junker, side seam already cracked Last Line: Is it hard to learn? One of my college students: %why are you out here? Where is your family? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Villages VISITATION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'd been expecting her, the old eskimo Last Line: Outside, footprints in fresh snow, wind, %a gray form whelping three wolves Subject(s): Eskimos; Guests; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska WELCOME TO NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Where thirty-five hundred stumblers Last Line: Where tundra, ice, horizon %rise into space Subject(s): Nome, Alaska WESLEY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Still in third grade Last Line: Higher, soaring %rusty chains creaking Subject(s): Children; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska WINTER'S FIVE MILES AWAY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Division street's gravel Last Line: Tomorrow, the eskimo snorts, %will kick like a moose Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Winter |
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