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
Easy Salmon Advocacy: Protecting the Tongass, Part 2
Friends of salmon and wild places: have you written your letter for the Tongass National Forest yet? As discussed in Protecting the Tongass, Part 1, the U.S. Forest Service’s budget for the Tongass has long been skewed. Timber/road development currently receive…
Salmon, Trees, and We: The Tongass, Part 1
This is one of my favorite places in the world: This photo was taken in Sitka, but could be almost anywhere in Southeast Alaska. The Tongass National Forest blankets most of our region, a crazy quilt of western red cedar, Sitka spruce, and western hemlock that covers…
Writer of the Month? Thanks, Red Wheelbarrow!
As much (and as loudly) as I grieve our autumn migration, leaving our Sitka family for the winter, it doesn’t take long before I remember that this transient lifestyle brings the best of several worlds into my life. Our winter-life offers luxuries like regular…