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John Smelcer

John Smelcer is the author of a dozen poetry books, including Indian Giver, Without Reservation, Beautiful Words, and Songs from an Outcast. His poems have appeared in the Atlantic, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

Poetry

Summer 2010

Poems from Home

By John Smelcer

The following bilingual poems are from the Ahtna Athabaskan language of interior Alaska, where it gets as cold as seventy degrees below zero in midwinter. They are from John Smelcer’s […]