Tom Sexton was poet laureate of Alaska from 1995–2000. He is the author of eight books of poetry. His latest, A Clock with No Hands, is a collection of poems about his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts. Sexton winters in Eastport, Maine and summers in Anchorage, Alaska.
New Poems
Eiders
Passamaquoddy Bay
Lubec, Maine
Night-Herons
At East Machias
In Waldo County, Maine
Crossing the Blueberry Barrens
A Harvard Millerite Ascends
Uncle Eli Glover Moving
The Banishment of Saint Columba
Trawl
Arnprior, Ontario
On the Empire Builder Heading West
Burial Ground
The Emperor
Broad Pass, September
Cow Parsnip
Mountain Bluebirds
Beluga Point
Cottonwood Seed
Porcupine
At the Turning of the Season
That Other World
Summer Waterfall
Butterfly Lake
Juncos
Snow Buntings
Steller's Jay
Steller's Sea Cow, 1742-1768
Ursus Maritimus, the Polar Bear
Driving Toward Nenana
Cottonwood
Mountain Lake
Walking the Marsh
Mew Gulls
Snowy Owl
Looking to the West
Brown Creeper
A Necessary Poem
A Snowy Morning in May
The Man Who Learned Dena'ina
Clear and Cold
Two Ravens in a Tree
Tugs
Under Polaris
Dawson City, Yukon Territory
Signs of Spring
Wild Swans
Saint Lucia's Day
The Kite Flyers
Redpolls
The Iris Hunters
from Terra Incognita (1974)
Terra Incognita
Uncle Paul
Astoria
At Daybreak
December
from Late August on the Kenai River (1991)
Poolshark
Anchorage
Homer
Trapper Creek
The Wedding of Cecelia Demidorf
Compass Rose
Nikolaevsk
Saint Marys
On Reading Wang Wei
Late August on the Kenai River
Open Season
Two Poems for the Solstice
Harvest
from A Bend Toward Asia (1993)
Kodiak
Yakutat
El Dorado
Chitina
Gulkana Berry Pickers
The Princess Line
Chenega
Cygnus
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De Rerum Natura: or Of Nature's Things
In the Snow
Ritual
Waiting for Spring
Aleutians
Iris
Extending the Range
Springs
After the August Rains
Wolves
Pass Creek
Hurricane
Walking to the Beaver Pond with My Wife
On the Russian River
The Marsh in Spring
Sweet Spring Grasses
Crows on Bare Branches
Wind
Muskeg
from A Blossom of Snow (1995)
Naming
Winter Landscape
Burnet
Lin He-Jing
Towns
Lament
King Island
Beluga
Pleiades
Transformations
Marsh Violets
Crows
Homage to Neidecker
Fiddlehead
from Leaving for a Year (1998)
Thinking of Yu Fu on a Summer Evening
Leaving for a Year
Crossing the Divide
At Feng-Hsiang
Poem Begun on Mother's Day
Portage La Prairie
Melting Snow
from Autumn in the Alaska Range (2000)
On the Death of a Homeless Man
Rowing Toward the Spirit World
For Art and Anna on Their Wedding Day
Spirit Houses at Tazlina
The Alaska Range
The Cross Fox
Rowan Tree
A Blessing
Landscape
A Letter to Tu Fu
Touch-Me-Not
Solstice
In Glacial Light
The Bear that Visits Our Cabin
Willow Ptarmigan
Lynx
Blue Flag
Wilson's Warblers
The Mountains in Winter
Winter Solstice
The Gift of Snow
Winter Finch
Denali
Poem About the Moon
Rising from the Dark
April
Poem Written Near Hurricane
Autumn in the Alaska Range
Numen
Paradise Valley
Setosa
Epitaph
For the Sake of the Light
from World Brimming Over (2003)
By an Abandoned Railroad Line
In the Kitchen
Butcher Bird
American Dippers
Pastoral
Kinglet
At Fort Egbert
Nearing Solstice
Bohemian Waxwing
At Dusk
Teslin Lake, Y.T.
A Flicker's Nest
The Mountains
Blueberries
