Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object ... it’s especially well suited as a Mother’s day poem. I am the ...

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

My honored colonel, deep I feel Your interest ... Syne wha would starve?) Dame life, tho' fiction out may trick her, And in paste gems and frippery deck her; Oh! flickering, feeble, and unsicker ...