Come out to meet Alaka's Fiddling poet, Ken Waldman at the library on Thursday, April 24th at 5:00 pm for a program designed for all. 

Ken will also hold a program in the morning at 11:00 am for seniors, a program for kids at 3:15 pm, and then a writing workshop for teens & adults with the Mountain Home Arts Council at 6:00 pm. There are 4 opportunities to meet the extraordinary Alaskan fiddling Poet, Ken Walman.  Each event is unique. Come to one program or come to them all!  

About Ken Waldman:

After a long spring and summer Alaska tour, and then late summer work in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado, Ken returned to Alaska in early October to visit rural schools, lead professional development workshops for teachers and staffers, and give a keynote talk. After a conference in Spokane, he spent most of the rest of the 2024 calendar year in Central Time Zone with jobs in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Mississippi. January 1, he drove northeast to spend a week in New York City at a big arts conference. That week he also completed a successful Kickstarter campaign to help publish four new books this fall. Coming up next: house concerts in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, maybe Vermont, plus a February conference in Montreal.

A reminder, too, that it's Ken's debut novel and twentieth book, Now Entering Alaska Time, that's been the catalyst for all the 2024 Alaska dates. He's found lots of appreciative readers, and the book is now available in Tok, McCarthy, Seward, Seldovia, Kodiak. Ken's happy it's continuing to sell at Mosquito Books in the Anchorage airport, at the Anchorage Museum, at Hearthside Books in Juneau, and other leading bookstores around the state.

What's next? 

March jobs in Tennessee, North Carolina, and a big literary arts conference in downtown Los Angeles where Ken will meet up with co-editor Rachel White of their new literary journal, THE NOMAD. Then April dates in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Alaska, Idaho, and Washington. After that, we’ll see.

His twelve CDs of old-time Appalachian-style string-band music include two for children.

His twenty books consist of sixteen full-length poetry collections, a memoir about his life as a touring artist, a volume of
acrostic poems for kids, and a hybrid book that's part creative writing manual, part memoir, part full-length collection of
poems (about writers and writing). And there's his twentieth, the novel.

A former college professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, he's been a visiting writer at over 100 colleges and universities,
a visiting artist at over 250 schools in 35 states and has led workshops from Alaska to Maine.

As a performer, he's played from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to the Woodford Folk Festival (Queensland, Australia),
occasionally as a soloist, more often as leader of one of his ever-changing troupes of nationally recognized musicians.

Here's more about the music, the writing, the children's programs, and how they're all coming together under the broader
umbrella of Nomadic Productions - https://www.kenwaldman.com/