Swimming to Alaska: Poems and Stories of the Arctic

Celebrate National Poetry Month at a reading and book sale and signing by two local poets — Doris Jean Lynch and Nancy Chen Long.

Doris Lynch’s poetry collection Swimming to Alaska was published by Bottom Dog Press in October, 2023. Meteor Hound, her book of haibun, also came out in 2023. In December, she was nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun. A long-time resident of Bloomington, she worked as a librarian for Monroe County Public Library and as a writing teacher at Ivy Tech, Bloomington.

Nancy Chen Long is the author of Wider than the Sky (Diode Editions, 2020), which was selected for the Diode Editions Book Award, and Light into Bodies (University of Tampa Press, 2017), which won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Her poetry has been supported by a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry and the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award. She’s lived in Brown County for over 24 years and works at Indiana University in the Research Technologies division.

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