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Hi. I’m Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, a poet born in Northwest Texas, here for Poets on the Plains. I’ve got some coffee on the ...

A holiday poem from Kevin Kling about the world's oldest profession... fishing. It's a cautionary tale with a bit of mythology mixed in. Up North, where the Snake and the Red Rivers flow, up where ...

A London woman has won a nationwide poetry contest about fishing. Julia Casterton's poem, titled Senor Lobelinos, talks about fishing with the man in Galicia in Spain. Angling broadcaster Keith Arthur ...

Painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon/Courtesy the National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 293. The first time I read Leigh Hunt's “The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit”—I must have been in college—I ...

Local seafarers will reel in audiences during the 12th-annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Ore., Feb. 27-March 1, with oral storytelling inspired by those earning a living on the water.

I wade in a swirl of May-colored water, cast a fine gray quill, the last tie of my father. Michael Sowder has published three collections of poems, “A Calendar of Crows,” “An Empty Boat” and “House ...

The last weekend in February is a slow time for Pacific Northwest and Alaska fishermen. The crab season is winding down, and the salmon aren't running yet. But in Astoria, Oregon, a historic fishing ...