Poet Tom Sexton presents Alaska Poetry from 1867 until 1966, part 2, From Verse to Free Verse,,
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Poet Tom Sexton presents part two of his talk concerning a brief history of Alaska poetry from 1867 until 1966. (Part one was recorded at the UAA Campus Bookstore on October 24, 2017 and is posted in iTunes.) Poet Tom Sexton is professor emeritus of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage and was Alaska's Poet laureate from 1994 until 2000. He is the author of several collections of poetry including For the Sake of the Light and I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets, both from the University of Alaska Press. Note, in 1982 Tom Sexton compiled the collection Early Alaskan Writing 1867-1925, A Miscellany which is referred to here.
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