Presentation features UAF contributors to literary magazine

May 24, 2016

University Relations

Join emeriti professors Peggy Shumaker and Kesler Woodward on June 2 for a presentation of "Sparks: A Conversation in Poems and Paintings."

The free public program begins at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Alaska Museum of the North.

"Sparks" began when Woodward asked Shumaker for a new poem, to which he painted a response. Shumaker then responded to his painting with another poem. They continued the exchange multiple times. The Alaska Quarterly Review, a literary magazine based at the University of Alaska Anchorage, published the results in its spring 2016 issue.

At the event, Gerri Brightwell, associate professor of English, will read an excerpt from her story in the same issue.

The evening is dedicated to the late Eva Saulitis, who earned master's degrees in science and fine arts at UAF. Anyone purchasing a copy of Eva's new book, "Becoming Earth,will receive a subscription to AQR. Proceeds will go to the Eva Saulitis Endowed Scholarship.