poet Tom Sexton offers a brief history of Alaska poetry until 1966, focusing on poery in verse. Tom Sexton first came to Alaska in 1959 and has lived in Anchorage with his wife Sharyn since 1970. He is Professor Emeritus of English at UAA and served as Alaska’s Poet Laureate from 1994-2000. He is author of several collections of poetry including A Ladder of Cranes, For the Sake of the Light, I Think Again of Those Chinese Poets, Autumn in the Alaska Range, A Clock With No Hands, and Bridge Street at Dusk. In 1982 he compiled the collection Early Alaskan Writing 1867-1925, A Miscellany.