UAS Literary and Arts Journal 2019

Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Dedication Dr. Sol Neely -- Little Salmon Lake -- Distorted Self-Reflection -- Of Alderaan -- Beachcomber -- The babysitter’s special -- Lichen -- I Grew Up Shelving Tackle -- Housekeeping -- Untitled -- Hydrangea -- Evergreen Cemetery, mid-Spring -- Holy Rivers -- Up The Stream -- Syncing Salmon -- Salmon Yunomi -- Sunset Solitaire -- Abbreviated Formalities -- Ritual -- Landfalls: Dedications to Alaskan Women Writers and Storytellers: There are moments that keep themselves in our memories (for Ernestine Saankalaxt' Hayes) -- Artist Biographies -- With it, we are joined, and continue (for Joan Naviyuk Kane) Ambient Noise (for Vivian Faith Prescott) -- Untitled -- They prefer oatmeal -- A baked potato -- Veil of Secrets -- Bury These Stories -- The Spoken Forest -- Tree of Life—a rewrite -- The Spoken Neighborhood Christopher “LC” Gonzales, -- Untitled --What God Said on the Radio Today -- Vegetarian Alaskan -- Chasing Raindrops -- Who Are You -- Recipe for Catching Starlight -- Southeast Mountain -- Untitled -- Typewriters and Tobacco -- Above Gastineau Channel -- Beaches -- The Monster -- Canal Beginning -- What if my rapist was a Supreme Court Justice? -- Hong Kong Club -- Where I’m From -- Dandelion Friends -- One Square Inch -- Native Love Poem -- Bear Mask and Raven Headress -- Wilbur Window -- Untitled -- Still They Shine -- Bringing Her to The Shrine of St. Therese -- Featured Writer X'unei Lance Twitchell Interview -- Cutting the Fog -- Headlands Center for the Arts in the Marin Park -- Release -- Ax Tláa Ax Een Akanik Noojín -- Láx’ Haa Kináa Wdikeen -- X'unei Lance Twitchell -- Kill All Natives (K.A.N.) -- Lynx -- Frequently asked questions about Climate Change -- Featured Artist Wayne Price, Master Carver Interview -- Fifty Shades of Gray -- Broken Bridge at the End of the Perseverance Trail -- Grey Areas -- Fixated on the Lights --Braid of Recognition -- My Dad Taught Me -- My Escape --I am From -- Yaakoosgé Daakahídi -- Kake -- Winner of the 2019 Mac Behrend’s Award for Creative Writing -- Trash to Treasure -- Beach Home -- Gathering Again -- Visit With My Mother -- Mixed Bouquet of Flowers -- Take a Good Look -- Mud Shark Evolving -- I Was Raped Yesterday -- Artist Biographies -- Squid Contact -- Port Town -- Visitation -- The Mountains Are Alive Elise Tomlinson, Misty Lupine Forest -- Traveling in Korea with Walt Whitman -- Rainy State Haikus -- Tweety -- Where We Intersect -- Tenakee Springs -- 10 Ways of Looking at the Sea -- Skiff in Orange and Blue -- Sunbathing -- Changing Lanes -- Proper Attire -- Forty Years -- Forgery -- Seasons of Color -- Eat More (W)hole Foods -- When It’s Raining -- Skinny Dipping -- Our Yellow Kitchen -- Gratitude must not be hurried (On the occasion of your twenty-first birthday) -- Sunrise Poppies -- Liberating Silverware -- You Are Precious (Plaque at Sayéik, Gastineau Community School, Douglas) - Writer Biographies -- Tree of Life—a rewrite -- Artist Biographies -- The Eye of the Fox -- Editor's Note -- Writer Biographies -- Acknowledgement