Springtime in Alaska brings Yellow Umbrellas from the 'Alaska Quarterly Review'

As the snow melts and Alaskans move outside to enjoy warm spring days and nights, the Alaska Quarterly Review's spring edition, Yellow Umbrellas, provides some wonderful reading. The latest edition of the Alaska Quarterly Review includes a wide variety of compelling short stories, provocative essays and poems from more than 35 different poets. Featured poets include:

• Alaska Native poet Joan Naviyuk Kane, winner of the Whiting Award
• 2014 Governor's Award winner Eva Saulitis
• Sean Hill, visiting UAF professor and former Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry

Co-founder and editor Ronald Spatz, dean of UAA's Honors College, says "readers will find the eye-opening works in these pages a deeply moving experience."

Purchase a copy of this 31st edition for $8.95 at bookstores throughout Alaska or on the web at uaa.alaska.edu/aqr.

There will also be a book launch party in Anchorage at TapRoot (3300 Spenard Road) on Friday, April 25, from 7-9 p.m. Admission is $7 for a night of jazz, conversation, cocktails and readings from AQR's featured poets Joan Naviyuk Kane, Eva Saulitis and Sean Hill.

Published twice a year by the University of Alaska Anchorage since 1982, Alaska Quarterly Review is one of America's premier literary magazines and a source of powerful, new voices. The publication is a literary journal devoted to contemporary literary art, publishing fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. It provides a forum for writers whose work challenges accepted forms and modes of expression, experimenting with language and thought.

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