Any Drop to Drink

Wine is wont to show the mind of man, or so the saying goes. But in Alaska, it’s the beer bottles and sewer bills that do the talking.

The Alaska State Council on the Arts, in a bid to market poetry beyond the suspenders-and-pince-nez crowd, is inserting little odes and sonnets from area scribes in telephone, water and sewer bills and printing them on beer bottles—hoping to brighten people’s day when they least expect it (or at least when they’re a little tipsy).