Join Dianne Bilyak on Friday as she reads from her memoir Nothing Special at the North Kingstown Free Library! Register to see her from 6:00-7:30 at the #linkinbio. #memoir #library #rhodeisland

Our virtual event for the GetLit Festival in Spokane is live on YouTube! We talked about glaciers, death, lineage, cartoons, and more. With @akwenstrup.bsky.social, @pataky.bsky.social, & Susanna Mishler & John Messick. #AlaskaSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkuz...

"I have a gift for mimesis / I've been told." 😊 Ha, yes!!! And what a gift! You all GOT to step into this museum & take a tour (I loved every bit of it!): The Museum of Unnatural Histories by @akwenstrup.bsky.social (@weslpress.bsky.social, 2025) 😍💖😍 #poetry 📚💙 #NationalPoetryMonth

I loved reading this profile of my friend and mentor Dr. Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social. Sarah Manriquez does a beautiful job of capturing why Jen is a fantastic researcher and teacher: her curiosity and her commitment to seeing the world differently. www.uaf.edu/cla/news/202...

Please consider nominating poetry! I’m very excited to see poetry in the major awards right now!

This week, Guest Editor Claudia Santos has selected “Maybe the Body” by Asa Drake as this week’s #BestDressed pick! https://sundressblog.com/2026/04/08/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-maybe-the-body-by-asa-drake-3/

I read an ARC of Ibe Liebenberg’s Birds at Night (@ttupress) at the beginning of the year. How lucky to have his language as a companion all year. M

Amber McCrary Blue Corn Tongue (@azpress) made me laugh out loud right before it made me cry multiple times. I love how the speaker’s rich interiority is mirrored by their careful observations of the more than human world.

I love that Poets and Writers editor India Lena González invited each debut poet to recommend works by other debut writers. The gaps and reworkings/re-recordings in Abi Pollokoff’s night myths ** before the body (@redhenpress) invite the reader to linger with each poem.

More recommendations! I love that Poets and Writers editor India Lena González invited each debut poet to recommend works by other debut writers. You can read more about Kalehua and Mele in the newest issue of Poets and Writers where she’s featured on their 10 Best Debut Poets.

I love that @poetswritersinc asked about my favorite 2025 releases. Even more, I love that India let me recommend Sarah Pape’s 2024 Forgive the Animal (@cornerstone.press). So gorgeous! Sarah’s currently selling signed copies + the beautiful totes in the final image, contact her for more details!

Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...

Anchorage readers, this Saturday stop by and say hello! I’ll be at Title Wave from 12-3 signing copies of The Museum of Unnatural Histories.

Hi all! Nice time to support Native writers during Native American Heritage Month with 40% off my book #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II when you order through UW Press website and use the code WINTER25 Quyaana! uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

ALOCASIA is honored to be holding two nights of virtual readings to benefit the Western Alaska Relief Fund, to support communities impacted by the recent typhoon. There is a suggested $10-25 donation. We hope to see you there, and hope you'll spread the word! Find out more: bit.ly/linkedhearts...

@jenniferschell16.bsky.social So good! Your paper and Slash/Back!

Thank you Moriah and @nyswi.bsky.social for this conversation! tinyurl.com/4fpdshab

Native American History Month is the perfect time for non-Indigenous writers and scholars to stop referring to Indigenous belief systems and stories as “folklore” and “myth.”

February 5, 2026 | 7-9pm Cameron Awkward-Rich, @sadqueer4life.bsky.social, Chet’la Sebree, and @akwenstrup.bsky.social February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading

Happy to help share the news of the Literary Arts Fund launch today and to serve as its executive director. More here: literaryartsfund.org

Write a critical essay with me this Saturday! 🥰

If there was ever a time that we need Indigenous stories told in our own language & imbued with our values - that time is NOW. It is with great honor & humility that we will premiere our short #TwoOldWomen film at #HIFF45 w/ our Kanaka relatives. 🙏🏽 Mahsi’choo to author #VelmaWallis for her support!

Maybe the Body by Asa Drake, forthcoming from Tinhouse

'Miserable': Hundreds sheltering in Western Alaska schools in dire conditions alaskapublic.org/news/environ... 👉🏾 bit.ly/help4wak

I have a new record coming out October 24th called "Live Like the Sky" and this is the first video by Inuk filmmaker asinnajaq. Filmed in Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet), Inukjuak, Tiotia:ke (Montreal), Pittsburgh & Philadelphia.

I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Listen here ya bald coot

In July I had the pleasure of collaborating with @heideerdrich.bsky.social and Kim Blaeser on a poem inspired by Sky Hopinka’s work. You can watch us read the poem on YouTube and read the text at MoMA Magazine youtu.be/SBReR5dkaXU?...

The best data we currently have about the scope of MMIP in Alaska comes from a 2018 Urban Indian Health Institute Report. You can read it at this link www.uihi.org/wp-content/u...

In 2023 I had the privilege of speaking with artist about their advocacy to end violence against Indigenous Alaskans. I want to highlight their voices, always, but especially in light of the AKDPS’s refusal to assist Data for Indigenous Justice. Bobby Qalutaksraq Brower “Healing Stitches”

In 2023 I had the privilege of speaking with artist about their advocacy to end violence against Indigenous Alaskans. I want to highlight their voices, always, but especially in light of the AKDPS’s refusal to assist Data for Indigenous Justice. Amber Webb’s Memorial Qaspeq 2018-2022

[when asked about the refusal] A spokesperson for the governor did not respond to emailed and hand-delivered questions about the state’s failure to provide names of homicide victims to Apok’s group. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social x me x Candice Hopkins at the moMA, October 7.

Alaska's legislature has adjourned a special session, only hours after it convened. They overrode the Governor's $50M cut to education, but it doesn't include $$$ schools need for construction & maintenance. Nearly $28 million that was cut in June won't be restored www.propublica.org/article/alas...

Hi #skystorians #alaskasky & #Nativesky 👋 Looking for some non-fiction/Native history summer reading? Right now my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II is 40% off plus free shipping if you order through UW Press’ website with the code WARM25: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... 🌻

NYC Friends! I’m reading with Kimberly Blaeser, Sky Hopinka and @heideerdrich.bsky.social at MoMA at the end of the month and would love to see you.It’s going to be amazing! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

It is a human right to learn to read but in too many places, kids across Alaska are learning in buildings with black mold & leaking roofs. They're stuffed into classrooms with only one overworked teacher. It’s a system guaranteed to fail. www.adn.com/opinions/202...

Really grateful for this interview and writeup of Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner! Had a blast connecting with journalist David James Book published by: @uwapress.bsky.social www.newsminer.com/features/sun...

Today’s Featured Poem: “[redacted]” by m. s. RedCherries from mother published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/redacted/

The WGA members who write on shows like “Molly of Denali” know people in rural America NEED public media to SURVIVE: "Public media is often the last remaining communication left to us when conditions are severe and power goes out...the essential service of public media saves lives and property."

I’d like to introduce you to our lord and savior…revision

So happy to be home and working on salmon skins. Last week I visited the IAIA program for the first time. It was an amazing experience. One unexpected moment of joy was talking about salmon leather with Veronica Bustamente.

Pitzer’s entire article is excellent Most importantly though this: Start with where suffering is already happening and work backward to see strategic places where you can insert yourself to alleviate harm or to gum up the concentration-camp machinery.

Um, you can buy my book instead: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...

Happy Publication Day Mele! So happy that @kalekim.bsky.social’s gorgeous collection is part of this world. 💖💗💗

Book signing in Anchorage today! 12-3pm at Title Wave Books Fun fact- Title Wave Books was my favorite bookstore as a teen-it was right near my high school. Now I’m there as an author (!)

The most delightful and unexpected surprise I’ve had in a bathroom. The overhead lights are motion activated and only the disco lights were on when I walked in.

I’m so excited for this book! Anthony’s poetry is deeply felt and incredibly moving. I can’t wait for this collection. 🖤🖤🖤