Announcing The Smoking Poet Summer 2012 Issue!

"Words that turn the page to flame."www.thesmokingpoet.com Photography by Eleanor Bennett
In Southwest Michigan, where The Smoking Poet is based, we are in the midst of a heat wave. Triple digits. Gasp! But far, far up north, in that gorgeous wild of Alaska, cool things are happening. It’s been a long time since I was in Alaska myself, but the vivid beauty of the tundra, the Brooks Range, the fields of crystalline snow, and a proliferation of wildlife stays with me still. I’ve long wondered h...