Announcing my first full-length poetry collection:

The Hide of My Tongue, Ax L'óot' Doogú

The Hide of My Tongue is a familial and historical account of the loss & revitalization of the Tlingit language. The Hide of My Tongue explores the historical and contemporary effects of the loss of one of the world’s most complex languages: Tlingit

At the time of contact with outsiders, people in Alaska spoke forty-two distinct languages.  Now maybe six of those might live and grow outside of archives. When governments, churches, and schools join forces to wipe out cultures they don't comprehend, language is one of the first targets.  Brutal policies cause as much damage as epidemics.  In The Hide of My Tongue, Vivian Faith Prescott shows the struggles of specific Tlingit people to retain, relearn, speak and respect their language in all its richness. Her powerful poems restore language to its proper place—on people's tongues, and in the heart and soul of everyone who values words.—Peggy Shumaker, Alaska Writer Laureate, author of "Just Breathe Normally" and "Gnawed Bones."

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My First Digital Chapbook Publication

by White Knuckel Press

SLICK

Rare is the book of poetry whose message and whose craft are of equal excellence. "Slick" is exactly that.—Larry Thomas.

In the age of oil, Slick invokes the voices of people and cultures shaped by oil. "Let me measure how deep the oil sludge, how thick the fumes in your house, how flammable the benzene in your cells, how deep the oilman's pockets..."

Read two poems in Ithaca Lit 

Read 1 poem in Word Gumbo

Nomination: Best of the Net, 2011 

Read: Review in Newpages See Yellow Medicine Review.

Read: 3 poems in Dead Snakes

Read: 2 poems in Orion headless

Read: my poems at  Catapult to Mars

Read: poems at Drunken Boat

Read: Interview at CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY 


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On the new Alaska Writing Center: Raven House. Featured Writer @ Alaska 49 Writers.

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About Me:

Vivian Faith Prescott is an Alaskan resident  born and raised in Wrangell, Alaska and lives in Sitka and Kodiak, Alaska. Vivian is married with four children and many grandchildren. She is of Sáami and Suomalainen, and Irish descent (among others). Her children are Raven of the T’akdeintaan clan/Snail House. She is adopted into the T'akdeintaan clan. Her Tlingit name is "Mother of Cute Little Raven."

Vivian is Co-Director of Raven’s Blanket, a non-profit designed to enhance and perpetuate the cultural wellness and traditions of Indigenous peoples through education, media, and the arts; to promote artistic works by both Native and non-native Alaskans.