John Morgan

“Milk Black Carbon” is a book that will reward multiple readings and be of interest to anyone concerned with how a talented Alaska Native writer views her changing culture.

The first thing that struck me as our new friends, the Tabberts, drove us in from the Fairbanks airport was the sky. The sweep of it opened my eyes and filled my lungs.

April is National Poetry Month. John Morgan, former director of the creative writing program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and one of the state's most published poets, sent us the following.