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
Fisher-Readers, Please Meet Fisher-Writer Rich Bard
The Fisher Poets have been on my mind lately. Less than two weeks until a performance at Seattle’s Fish Expo (Thursday the 29th, 11:30 — 1:00), and organizing’s already underway for the main event festivities in Astoria, Oregon. (Mark your calendars: Feb 22 — 24,…
Cap’n J Visits the Oregon Coast
Almost at National Novel Writing Month’s midpoint, I’m still buried in this month-long exercise to produce as many words as possible. (They say 50,000; I’m shooting for writing every day and being thankful for whatever results. I’m already breaking the “rules” anyway,…
Tonight! Author Seth Kantner on Raven Radio
One of my favorite things about Sitka is Raven Radio, the community public radio station. The day they got their live streaming up and running was a good, good day: I could listen to Mississippi Delta Blues and Meathead’s Mix Tape even when we were Down South! Thanks…