Poems by Ken Waldman, the Fiddling Poet.

Poet and fiddler Ken Waldman has lived in Alaska for fourteen years, reading and performing at hundreds of venues. He has taught at the University of Alaska in Nome and Sitka, and frequently travels to Native villages and rural communities where he shares his writing and music with students.

This prolific performer has produced over two dozen poetry chapbooks and a tape cassette and has published 250 poems and stories. Nome Poem is his first full volume of poetry. It describes his residence in Nome, his relations with the citizens of this frontier town, his role as a musician and schoolteacher, a personal crisis in Seattle, and the plane crash that almost cost his life.

Ken Waldman is the real thing! He lets himself be a vessel—for stories, music, that for the northern place he has chosen as home—and transmits it all as a wondrous, authentic blend, replete with humor and heart. —Naomi Shihab Nye