UPCOMING EVENTS, PUBLICATIONS:
 
On Saturday, February 11, I'll be leading an all day workshop in poetry writing ("Writing in the Dark") for the Fairbanks Arts Association.  For more information and to sign up, visit the Arts Association website--click on Literary Arts and scroll down.

A collection of my prose, Forms of Feeling: Poetry in Our Lives is just out from the distinguished Irish press, Salmon Poetry.  It includes pieces that originally appeared in Manoa, Fourth Genre, The North American Review, and Writers’ Chronicle, as well as in the anthologies Under Northern Lights and Alaska: Reflection on Land and Spirit.  Here's a comment by Peggy Shumaker:

"How is it possible to live, in this culture at this moment, a life filled with poetry?  John Morgan's essays, meditations, and interviews answer that:  like this, like this, like this.  Morgan takes us from his student days at Harvard and Iowa to his days as professor emeritus, the span  of a life lived in lines, a life of poetry.  When the most critical challenges occur, like the terrible illness of a child, Morgan shows how vital
precise  language can be.  Precisely located, mostly in Alaska, this prose is life-giving, grounded and smart."  

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The artist Kesler Woodward and I are putting together a chapbook using poems and paintings based on our respective residencies at Denali National Park.  It's called The Hungers of the World and Alaska Geographic has expressed interest in publishing it.

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Poems from The Hungers of the World will be part of "Through Your Eyes," a multi-media web exhibition of artwork from artists and writers who have held residencies at various U.S. national parks.  The exhibition is sponsored by The National Park Service.