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
The View From Sitka: Totem Raising, Part 1
I’ve yet to find anywhere in the world that gives me the same sense of peace as Sitka does. Just pulling into the harbor and stepping onto the dock, my body relaxes bone-marrow deep. And if I had to pick a single place where that slow down, breathe deep, let go…
From the Galley: Black Cod, Sitka-Style
(This is Part 2 of a series on black cod, also known as sablefish. For more about the fish itself and how it’s harvested, please visit Part 1, Seeking the Sustainable: Alaskan Black Cod.) Our friend Jerry Dzugan is the director of the fantastic Alaska Marine Safety…
Remembering Senator Eliason
One of my early boat kid memories is of my parents pointing out the sleek schooner-troller Karmon Dee fishing alongside us on the drag. “That’s Senator Eliason’s boat.” I still remember the new understanding born in my brain that day. Politicians could represent…