{"id":5919,"date":"2016-09-07T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-doorman\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:02:05","slug":"writers-weir-doorman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-doorman\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Weir: Doorman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A beaded leather-gloved author,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>cannery worker, First Nation\u2019s matriarch,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and her fencer, philosopher husband,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>arm in arm, approach the hotel entrance. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rain peppers them. In their wake, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>legions of transcriptions waded, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>labyrinths of translations resiliently charted, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>a lifetime of Native language cradled <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>into groundwork for generations to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I offer access, open glass doors, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>unable to muster up a provocative couplet, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>a classical illusion, a Tlingit greeting, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>only, \u201cGood evening!\u201d Both acknowledge. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Alaskan poet laureates step into the warm foyer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jack Campbell lives in Excursion Inlet. His second book of poetry, \u201cThe Outhouse Spider: New and Selected Poems,\u201d is currently in publication.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To submit to Writers\u2019 Weir, email your poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction to managing editor Mary Catharine Martin at maryc.martin@capweek.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beaded leather-gloved author, cannery worker, First Nation\u2019s matriarch, and her fencer, philosopher husband, arm in arm, approach the hotel entrance. Rain peppers them. In their wake, legions of transcriptions waded, labyrinths of translations resiliently charted, a lifetime of Native language cradled into groundwork for generations to follow. I offer access, open glass doors, unable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}