The newest issue of Southeast Alaska\u2019s undergraduate-led literary and arts journal launches April 15, and features Ravenstail and spruce root basket weaving, thoughts on motherhood and the wild in Tracy Arm, and writing and art from around Southeast Alaska.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s edition of Tidal Echoes features Sitka weaver Teri Rofkar and Juneau biologist and writer Aleria Jensen.<\/p>\n
Jensen said she was \u201cabsolutely stunned\u201d to be chosen as the featured writer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was humbling and also a complete delight, and it\u2019s been such fun to work with the Tidal Echoes staff on this project,\u201d she wrote in an email.<\/p>\n
She sent in a selection of new and older writings, including an essay, \u201cIn the Wild Without Child: One Mother\u2019s Invitation to Self,\u201d and poems, one of which is featured in this issue of the Capital City Weekly as well (page 7).<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been a huge fan of Tidal Echoes since I was first introduced to it back in 2004,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe are so lucky to have a journal dedicated to the literary and visual arts of this place we call home. It\u2019s such a consistently lovely publication, carefully constructed, full of voices and images unique to Southeast. I open it and I feel the people and place rising off the page \u2014 it\u2019s a touchstone for connection.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rofkar, whose Tlingit name is Chas\u2019 Koowu Tla\u2019a, is a renowned Ravenstail and spruce root weaver. Right now, she\u2019s working on her \u201cTlingit Superman\u201d series. One of those is the robe featured on the Tidal Echoes cover, which is likely the first all mountain goat robe woven in 200 years, with DNA double helixes woven into its borders to highlight the special nature of Baranof Island goats. She plans on wearing it to the launch on Friday, April 15.<\/p>\n
The launch party will include talks from both Jensen and Rofkar, as well as readings from some of the other writers selected for publication, while images from the journal play in the background. Jensen said she\u2019ll address the origin of each of the pieces included in the journal and her writing process; Rofkar will talk about what she\u2019s been working on, and, in addition to the mountain goat robe, may show her current robe-in-progress, which will incorporate LEDs and an aurora that changes with the dance of the person wearing it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really nice, as a visual artist, to be included in that kind of annual venue,\u201d Rofkar said.<\/p>\n
The journal strives to represent all of Southeast Alaska, faculty advisor and UAS Associate Professor of Creative Writing Emily Wall wrote in an email. \u201cWe are always striving to reach diverse communities\u2026 we really want this journal to be a reflection of as much of Southeast Alaska as possible,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
This year, they had more than 350 total submissions from communities around Southeast, including Hoonah and Haines. One they\u2019re especially excited about is a poem from Yaakoosg\u00e9 Daakah\u00eddi freshman Jasz Garrett; they received several \u201cexcellent\u201d submissions from the school, Wall said.<\/p>\n
Tidal Echoes\u2019 editors are UAS Creative Writing students. This year, Alexa Cherry is the senior editor; Maranda Clark is the junior editor. The fall intern was Chrystal Randolph.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe three of them did an outstanding job on the journal this year. It\u2019s very unusual to have a regional literary journal run entirely by undergraduate students (this is more commonly work done by graduate students),\u201d Wall wrote.<\/p>\n
The Tidal Echoes launch is 7 p.m. Friday, April 15 at UAS in the Egan Lecture Hall. Beginning at 6:30, journals will be on sale for $5. There will also be light refreshments.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no cost to attend.<\/p>\n
Any UAS student or Southeast Alaskan resident can submit to Tidal Echoes. Submissions will open again this September. The deadline for the 2017 issue is Dec. 1. For more information, go to http:\/\/www.uas.alaska.edu\/arts_sciences\/humanities\/tidalechoes\/.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Contact Capital City Weekly managing editor Mary Catharine Martin at maryc.martin@capweek.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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