Poet Emily Wall reads "Eating the Wild"

Edible Alaska was glad to publish this poem by Emily Wall in our Spring 2020 issue. Here she is reading it for you from the Douglas Food Pantry, where she volunteers. The poem is a villanelle and persona poem, written in the voice of Chef Alice Waters, who is considered the "grandmother of food in America." In the poem, Waters tells her story and encourages women to reconnect to their bodies and their relationship to food.  

Emily Wall is a professor at University of Alaska and the author of three books of poetry, Flame, Liveaboard, and Freshly Rooted. She lives and writes in Douglas, Alaska and can be found at emily-wall.com. 

See this gorgeous poem in print by ordering a copy of the Spring issue for yourself.