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Join poet and naturalist
Holly Hughes as she
shares stories from two decades
working on the sea in Alaska as
a commercial fisherman and naturalist. She’ll read
from her chapbook, Boxing the Compass, and will
talk about how the rich language of navigation and
the sea informs her poems and essays.Holly Hughes’ chapbook Boxing the Compass won the Floating Bridge chapbook
contest in 2007. She is the editor of Beyond Forgetting: Poems and Prose about
Alzheimer’s Disease, forthcoming from Kent State University Press in April. She
spends her winters teaching writing at Edmonds Community College where she
co-directs the Convergence Writers Series and the Sustainability Initiative and her
summers working on boats as a naturalist in Alaska.
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04/10/2009
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