Alaska poets Tom Sexton and John Morgan discuss and offer readings from their new books The Moving Out: Collected Early Poems (Salmon Poetry) by John Morgan and Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home (University Press of Alaska) by Tom Sexton are the featured collections. · John Morgan studied under Robert Lowell at Harvard and received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1976, he moved with his family to Fairbanks, Alaska to direct the creative writing program at the University of Alaska. He is a recipient of several poetry awards including the Academy of American Poets Prize. Three of John Morgan’s prized poetry books are together in The Moving Out: Collected Early Poems. · Influenced by 8th century Chinese poets and written in an eight-line format, Li Bai rides a Celestial Dolphin Home traces Tom and Sharyn Sexton’s journey from Massachusetts to Alaska in the late 1960s. Part 2 of the collection continues with Li Bai waking up in modern-day Denali after a night of heavy drinking and his attempt to find his way home. 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 numerous collections of poetry including For the Sake of the Light and I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets.