Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen Reads “Roughly for the North”

Roughly for the North is Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen’s debut collection of poetry. It encompasses her love and longing for her ancestral home of Ugiuvak (King Island, Alaska). 

In the work, she also comes to grips with her beloved Aaka Cecilia Muktoyuk’s cancer illness and passing. It is full of Arctic imagery, lush language, and poetic forms. 

This event is open to the general public and does not require registration (but please note that our seating is limited). 

Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen is an Inupiat writer from the Ugiuvamiut tribe. She grew up in Nome, Alaska. Her grandparents instilled in her a love of and longing for their ancestral home of Ugiuvak (King Island, Alaska). The landscapes of the Bering Strait and the subsistence lifestyle influence her work. Her work has most recently appeared in Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic by Wesleyan University Press.