Read & Listen
Watch Sustainability, an excerpt from What Water Holds, shared at the Liberty Theatre in Astoria, Oregon, FisherPoets Gathering 2023
Working Boats Coloring Book
This richly illustrated coloring book, inspired by Tom Crestodina’s bestselling Working Boats picture book, is perfect for coloring enthusiasts of all ages who are curious about boats and the maritime world.
Step into the fascinating world of working boats with this fun and gorgeous coloring book filled with Tom Crestodina’s illustrations of intriguing boats and lively maritime scenes. Coloring enthusiasts of all ages will love bringing this world to life in full color. This coloring book features 31 full-page illustrations for coloring. On facing pages, the book also includes information about each of the drawings, with text by FisherPoet and essayist Tele Aadsen, paired with smaller illustrations, which also welcome coloring.
Available November 2023
I Sing the Salmon Home
For this unique collection celebrating salmon, Washington State Poet Laureate and Lummi tribal member Rena Priest gathered poems from more than 150 Washington poets ranging from first graders to tribal elders, all inspired by the Northwest’s beloved, iconic salmon. A diverse chorus of voices, they join together in poems that praise salmon’s heroic journey, beauty, courage, and generosity and witness the threats salmon face from pollution, dams and warming ocean
Listen
Hearing Voices, Coming Home, & The Sisterhood, excerpts from What Water Holds
Read: Hooked
New Readings, Writings, and Some Mushy Stuff
Hot off the internet presses, sweeties: In the Tote has a shiny new site for showcasing Fisher Poets’ work! Great big thanks to veteran performer Pat Dixon for his tremendous devotion to documenting the Fisher Poets. The revamped site includes new writers, new photos,…
“Why Do You Have to Do This?” Writing Memoir with an Open Door
November 2, 2012. I’m at Sitka’s maritime-themed Monthly Grind to read an essay. This is the first time I’m sharing this piece, and I’m afraid. I worry that the tone is overly intimate, presumptuous. It doesn’t help that Centennial Hall is packed, or that two of my…
The Daily Astorian on Fisher Poets Gathering 2013
Some of you have asked how Fisher Poets went last weekend. I haven’t been able to write about it yet — have barely been able to think about it, without a giant, goofy grin, swelling heart, nostalgic sigh. The afterglow’s still burning pretty brightly. Fortunately, the…