Kate Partridge’s poetry manuscript called “Democratic/Athletic” focuses on bringing Walt Whitman's conception of democracy as physical and kinesthetic to the setting of early Anchorage. Alyse Knorr’s second book of poetry imagines what would happen if an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization contacted Earth in the future and tried to respond to the Voyager Golden Record, a time capsule of our species launched into space by NASA in 1977. Both Kate Partridge and Alyse Knorr teach in the UAA English department. Alyse’s first book of poetry is called Annotated Glass.