SYNERGIES

Following the Still North model of reading and performance, our Synergies series offers uniquely experiential, literary-centric events that bring together sometimes disparate communities of artists and writers. Synergies evolved out of local poet and 49 Alaska Writing Center board member Jeremy Pataky’s Still North Reading and Performance Series, which began in 2009, prior to official establishment of the 49 Alaska Writing Center. Still North and Synergies events have been well-promoted, well-attended, and very successful. The series is currently coordinated by volunteers Jeremy Pataky and Susanna Mishler, along with substantial support from writing center staff. 

2012 SEASON

Of Cormorants and Ghosts
Anchorage Museum, Chugach Gallery, 4th Floor
Tuesday, March 27, 7-8:30 pm
Join nationally-acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep of Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, and our own Joan Kane of Anchorage. Waldrep (Goldbeater's Skin, Disclamor, Archicembalo) reads from his new collection Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (a collaboration with John Gallagher) and Kane reads from her collection The Cormorant Hunter's Wife. The reading will be followed by a book signing and no-host after party (location announced at the event). Free admission, but donations are welcome.

Linda Gregerson
Out North Contemporary Art House
Saturday, October 13, 7 pm
Join nationally-acclaimed poet and critic Linda Gregerson (Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, Magnetic North) as she reads from her new collectionThe Selvage.  Books will be available for purchase.  Reading will be followed by a book signing and no-host after party (location announced at the event).  Other performers and artists TBA.  Free admission, but donations are welcome.

Poet Kelsea Habecker reads from her work at "Land Beyond Landscape."