UA Press releases poetry book about Alaska homestead

October 1, 2018

University Relations

The University of Alaska Press has released Coming Out of Nowhere: Alaska Homestead Poems, by Linda Schandelmeier.

Schandelmeier grew up on a family homestead six miles south of Anchorage in the 1950’s and 60’s. The book, part poetic memoir and part historical document, tells the story of a family surviving on moose meat, potatoes and anything else they could gather. The poems in this collection suggest a level of human experience beyond the mundane, one in which trees and mountains are almost members of the family. 

Schandelmeier holds a B.S. degree in biology from UAF. Her poetry has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, including an artist in residence at Denali National Park, an Individual Artist Project Award from the Rasmuson Foundation, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, and the Midnight Sun, Fejes, and Anchorage Daily News-UAA prizes for poetry. Her poems have been set to music and performed in Carnegie Hall and elsewhere. She is the author of one poetry collection, "Listening Hard Among the Birches." Her poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Northern Review, Cirque, Ice-Floe and Connecticut River Review.

For more information about this and other titles, visit www.uapress.alaska.edu or call 800-621-2736.

EVENT: Join Fairbanks Arts in the Bear Gallery (Pioneer Park) for a reading with Linda Schandelmeier on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 7–8 pm.  For more information on this event, visit https://fairbanksarts.org/literary-arts/literary-readings/.