Jeremy Pataky
@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.
Erica Watson + Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska = Twue Wuv.
@rickirobin.bsky.social signing 1-4 today!
@rickirobin.bsky.social signing 1-4 today!
February 14, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Erica Watson + Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska = Twue Wuv.
@rickirobin.bsky.social signing 1-4 today!
@rickirobin.bsky.social signing 1-4 today!
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
January 27, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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?
#Fairbanks: I’ll be signing books tomorrow at The Big Bookstore, & yes I have opinions abt it & yes I’m doing it anyway. If you find yourself in big box land, come say hi, let me know you’re ____ from the internet, that’s always fun
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Fairbanks! Wats(on) up?
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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.
December 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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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"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!
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.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"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!
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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? 😬
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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? 😬
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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.
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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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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!
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Wild. Been watching this go. Sad.
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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"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.
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.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"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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❤️ 🐻!
‘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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November 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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“Get your mind off wintertime, you ain’t goin nowhere”
The night before my birthday, I couldn’t sleep, and worked on this instrad. Some of these songs are referenced directly in the book, and others found their way in at a slant.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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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.)
It’s always a good sign when you and your publisher take book pics in the wood pile, independently and with zero coordination 😅
If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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.
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Welp, first morning below zero this season.
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The road home. Crossing the Copper River.
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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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November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
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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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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...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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!
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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!
How’s the Bill Callahan song go?
“To hotwire and hightail crosses my mind.”
“To hotwire and hightail crosses my mind.”
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
How’s the Bill Callahan song go?
“To hotwire and hightail crosses my mind.”
“To hotwire and hightail crosses my mind.”
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!
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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!