@pataky.bsky.social
Poet, reader, writer. Publisher at Porphyry Press and Edible Alaska. Author of Overwinter (University of Alaska Press). Living off-grid near McCarthy, Alaska in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.
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.
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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!
25.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Wild. Been watching this go. Sad.
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Unhidden in plane sight.
#iflyalaska glacier and high country views
"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.
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14.11.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy pub day to @rickirobin.bsky.social—@porphyrypress.bsky.social is lucky to be your publisher! (Hilarious about the unwitting woodpiles duet.)
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Welp, first morning below zero this season.
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To all who celebrate... 🎵
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The road home. Crossing the Copper River.
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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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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!
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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)!
02.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
02.11.2025 20:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Indeed, thanks, Liz!
02.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Unhappy 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!
01.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 26 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 2Looking forward to it!
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