Featured in First Alaskans Magazine
A sure sense of emplacement might be one of the most elusive and valuable qualities a poet can embody. Marie Tozier's first book of poems clearly is emplaced in family, community, geography, history, and the seasonality of animals and plants in Western Alaska. An echo of Lorine Niedecker's limpid trust in the truths of the physical world and the rage and sorrow of Layli Long Soldier's work against the harm of cultural silencing rings through Open the Dark. Trust this direct, clear voice. Open yourself. -Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Toward Antarctica
Like most books of good poems [Open the Dark] is also a gallery of images for revisiting time after time. -49 Writers Blog
Marie Tozier's fresh voice is a very welcome addition to Alaskan, Indigenous and American literature. -Anchorage Daily News
Writ large, Tozier's collection lands on mutual caretaking across porous boundaries. From the child who takes pains to place a small snail beneath a stick ('Certain he would survive') to the adults quadrupling a donut recipe, the collection finds insight in nurturing, which grows into a touchstone for readers. -Corinna Cook, Terrain.org