The app knows what time I eat breakfast, how much sugar I put in my coffee which days I play hockey how much time I spend skiing and where. The app knows the moon cycle and its influence on the waterways knows when best to fish at Sheep Creek what color lure to use what … Continue reading Machine Learning
2018 Alaskana Award Nominations
Each year the Alaska Library Association requests nominations for outstanding titles written by Alaskan authors and selects one recipient to be recognized with the Alaskana Award during the annual conference in March. The call typically catches my attention only for me to discover that whatever my latest read by an Alaskan author was not published … Continue reading 2018 Alaskana Award Nominations
Things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter
Fog was deployed when erasure was needed, a soft, cold veiled undoing of yesterday, of morning of mind. Though the shroud of clouds did nothing to stifle the sounds of the unmaking- dogs barking, tearing at the thrashing throats of hauled out seals. The break and hiss of water battering rock, the evil seagull laughter … Continue reading Things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter
Poetry of Parenthood
I get some pretty sideways looks when I tell people I'm writing a master's thesis on the poetry of parenthood. Don't get me wrong, occasionally someone thinks that's cool, though most of the time they send me stuff like this strip from Matthew Inman's hilarious webcomic The Oatmeal . Props though to Joan Kane for instead … Continue reading Poetry of Parenthood
Poems for Kent: Q
Sharp enough for whale flesh sharp enough for a shave hand-soap and lather glint of mirror glint of morning light on harpoon head sharp as fear mirror reflecting Queequeg, Ishmael sleeping and through the curtainless window beyond, New Bedford bustling with whalers of the world, ships at port ballasts full of pacific, atlantic and indian … Continue reading Poems for Kent: Q
Jonas Lamb 