Baltimore: tonight!
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Erica Watson + Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska = Twue Wuv.
@rickirobin.bsky.social signing 1-4 today!

Alaska Literary Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry Science and art combine in a "poetic ecology"--a field guide and anthology that celebrates the natural and cultural beauty of Alaska

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Can't wait to read "Alaska Literary Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry," forthcoming from @mountaineersbooks.bsky.social. I'm grateful to have contributed poems about a nunatak and a glacier. Pub. date is March 1st, and you can preorder it *tonight* for 25% off with code SPRING26. Or later, sans code

Fairbanks! Wats(on) up?

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Went on a little ski from the cabin up McCarthy Creek on Sunday afternoon. Turned around at these two bull moose. Kind of surprised they haven’t shed their antlers yet.

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Just in time for the holidays, here are ADN reviewers’ favorite books of 2025 Top selections by Nancy Lord and David James include poetry, works of fiction, adventure stories, a Pulitzer-winning memoir and multiple books that interrogate the changing nature of the North.

"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!

Flier in grid design, featuring my headshot and John Messick’s, and each of our books (Ghosts of Distant Trees and Compass Lines)

I guess it’s almost time for my annual “drive to Anchorage in an ice storm hellscape” trip, and this time I’ll be signing books at Title Wave on Saturday with my @porphyrypress.bsky.social pressmate John Messick. Come see us if you can? Send road reports? 😬

David James's insightful and positive book review of Erica Watson's GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES appears in both the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Daily News today. It's gratifying to see such a careful and astute take on this book.

4 light skinned people, 3 of whom are holding books, in front of a bookstore shelf. One person holds Alaska is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Also Leopold’s Odyssey, and two hold Ghosts of Distant Trees

Me signing books! The focus is on me, with the stack of books in the foreground slightly blurred

Two of the people from the first photo at a small table, one standing and reading, the other seated

A busy photo of a holiday bazaar, with me smiling at the photographer from behind a kind of themeless sales table, where I’m selling crafts, homemade tortillas, and books

A few pics from my first couple book-talking/selling events this last week, in Fairbanks, with @pataky.bsky.social and @coyotetrail.bsky.social & here at Denali. It’s been a lovely transition into this stage of my book’s life!

Wild. Been watching this go. Sad.

Unhidden in plane sight.

#iflyalaska glacier and high country views

The first screen adaptation of 'Two Old Women' is told entirely in Gwich'in The film will also be shown at the Anchorage International Film Festival on Dec. 13 at 3 p.m.

"Two Old Women" is an adaptation of Velma Wallis' novel of the same name. Wallis's 1993 book is based on an Athabascan legend and takes place before colonization.

‘Their voices echo through me’: Lingít film based on traditional tale to premiere at Indigenous film festival - KCAW A short film based on a traditional Lingít tale will be premiering at the world’s largest Indigenous film festival this weekend. The 11-minute film made in Sitka is narrated entirely in Lingít with En...

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Happy pub day to @rickirobin.bsky.social—@porphyrypress.bsky.social is lucky to be your publisher! (Hilarious about the unwitting woodpiles duet.)

Welp, first morning below zero this season.

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The road home. Crossing the Copper River.

2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave.
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 4 Celebrating the fourth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting “Roughly for the North” by Inupiat writer Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen. This beautiful book of poetry centers on Carrie’s an…

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book launch, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES · Erica Watson with Julianne Warren — Porphyry Press Porphyry Press & Solstice Books present: GHOSTS LAUNCH You’re invited to the official Ghosts of Distant Trees book launch , the debut memoir-in-essays by Denali-based author Erica Watson and...

Join us in Fairbanks, Alaska for the book launch of Ghosts of Distant Trees. Author @rickirobin.bsky.social will be in conversation with @coyotetrail.bsky.social, hosted by publisher @pataky.bsky.social and Solstice Books. November 19, 2025!
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Caught this launch at the Spokane library before it’s time to return to AK… poet Laura Read read from her latest, THE SERIOUS WORLD (Boa Editions) and former WA State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken read from DRESSING IN THE DARK from Lynx House Press. @auntiesbooks.bsky.social sold lots of books!

The mint condition pale yellow car in the image is a Ford LTD II, a model produced from 1977 to 1979, spotted in the wilds of Spokane’s Davenport Hotel valet garage.

How’s the Bill Callahan song go?
“To hotwire and hightail crosses my mind.”

Homer's lucky to have you and Michael both (not to mention Bunnell)!

A cascara fig old fashioned in a rocks glass on the bar at Emma Rue's in Spokane, Washington.

Both myself and @porphyrypress.bsky.social were kicked off both Meta platforms with no warning and no recourse for no reason last week while traveling in Montana. Time to suss out Substack and Bluesky as alternatives. Cheers to new horizons!

Indeed, thanks, Liz!

Unhappy to report that both myself and Porphyry Press were kicked off of both Meta platforms with no warning and no recourse for no reason. So! Hello Bluesky. Join me in Fairbanks on Nov. 19 to launch @rickirobin.bsky.social's new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES!