Stories & Poetry

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have partnered with U.S. state arts agencies to support Poetry Out Loud, a contest that encourages the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage. After…

Original short stories from Alaska writers Clint Farr, Mary Kudenov and Heather Lende come to life as they are read aloud by local actors Elizabeth Pisel Davis, Christina Apathy and Doneice Gott.

Janet Collins, author of On the Arctic Frontier: Ernest Leffingwell’s Polar Explorations and Legacy, discusses her research on the early polar explorer and his work exploring, studying and mapping the landscape in what is now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge between 1906 and 1914. In consultation with the Inupiat of the area, Leffingwell took scientific…

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have partnered with U.S. state arts agencies to support Poetry Out Loud, a contest that encourages the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage. After…

On this Writers’ Showcase, our writers and actors take us from a bar stool at Darwin’s in Anchorage, to a wolf hunt near the village of Selawick, and we hear a meditation on the sometimes transient nature of our state’s inhabitants. Recorded Thursday, December 15, 2016.

During Celebration 2016, KTOO Public Media, Trickster Company, and Kindred Post collaborated to produce the Red Carpet Concert: Celebration Sessions. We hauled a bunch of gear and our red carpet into studio shared by Christy NaMee Eriksen and Rico Worl and recorded 8 Alaska Native performances in one day. Here is a compilation of sessions…

Episode of Writers’ Showcase, featuring professional actors presenting writing by Alaskans with five pieces that take us all over the state. We go fishing with Ernestine Hayes as child on the docks of downtown Juneau, and sit by a fire with Dave Hunsaker on the Homer Spit. Each piece, in one way or another, is…

A narrative concert featuring the writings of John Muir and the music of “Chance Ensemble”. More information is at www.chanceworld.com.

An intimate look at the career of an introverted Forest Service biologist.  His dream was a job alone in the woods never having to talk to another person.  Pete’s humorous and often poignant story traces how that changed.

Episode of Writers’ Showcase, featuring professional actors presenting writing by Alaskans. Family, relationships, love and a free woodstove that’s not so free are a few of the themes our writers explore.