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

by Isaac S. Villegas Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

The book is a ballad of appreciation for the lake and all of the many ways that its relationship to our state is symbiotic.

He believes, “Even if ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ it survives, and always will survive, as a gift of prophecy and prayer. It’s exactly when the climate is fraught that we need the ...