Juneau-based poet Ishmael Hope will celebrate the release of his latest collection of poetry this evening at Kindred Post.<\/p>\n
The book release party for Hope’s second book of poetry, “Rock Piles Along the Eddy,” begins at 6:30 p.m. at the gift shop and post office, 145 S. Franklin St.<\/p>\n
Hope will read excerpts from the book. Local authors Ernestine Hayes and Christy NaMee Eriksen will also read some of their work.<\/p>\n
The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale.<\/p>\n
Hope is a Tlingit and Inupiaq poet, storyteller and scholar. He is currently in a low-residency Master of Fine Arts program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, New Mexico.<\/p>\n
“Rock Piles Along the Eddy” mulls indigenous thought, raising a family, and relationships with ancestors and elders.<\/p>\n
Spurred on by recent experiences of loss, Hope said the work came in a creative outburst he’s experienced only once before, when writing his first book of poetry “Courtesans of Flounder Hill.”<\/p>\n
“Some of it has been percolating for a while, but a lot of it has just come in response to this desire I have to take the chance while I can,” Hope said by phone Tuesday, “who knows what’s in store tomorrow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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