Three Juneau poets will read from their poetry and lead a discussion on the final Evening at Egan series for 2000. The free, public presentation takes place at 7 p.m. Friday (December 1) in Egan Library on the UAS campus.

The poets are Dr. Alexis Easley and Emily Wall, both English faculty members at UAS and Mie Christenson, a former Juneau attorney who has retired to stay at home with her young child.

Easley said she would read a series of poems inspired by the Magical Realism literature class and her research in nineteenth-century women's literature. "The reading," she said, "will explore ways that poetry can help us imaginatively recover the past."

Wall, who studied at Oxford and the University of Arizona, has been published in a variety of small literary magazines. She will be reading "Juneau" poems about love. "I hope they touch on what is sublime and on what is ordinary or even disappointing about their subject."

Christensen, who has lived in Juneau for eight years, has written poetry throughout her life. She continues to write now while staying at her with her child.

The Evening at Egan Series began October 13 with poetry readings by UAS faculty and members of the community. Other topics during have included Spanish exploration in Southeast, disappearing SE glaciers, Tongass caves, marine mammals, and Tlingit literature.

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