THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019 // 9
Karen Gimbel
WrItTeN oN wAtEr
Get hooked on shared stories and the spoken
word at the 22nd annual FisherPoets Gathering
By JONATHAN WILLIAMS
FOR COAST WEEKEND
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Check out the offi cial program to this
year’s FisherPoets Gathering starting
on page 11.
he best stories are shared aloud
with friends.
For more than 100 fi shermen
from as far away as Vineyard
Haven, Mass., to Alaska, Idaho,
the West Coast and provinces of Can-
ada, poetry is, too.
The Fisherpoets Gathering in Asto-
ria, now in its 22nd year and running
from Friday, Feb. 22, through Sunday,
Feb. 24, is a celebration of spoken word
poetry and a reunion for fi shermen.
“People come all the way from the
East Coast to read twice for 15 minutes
or down from Alaska,” said Jon Broder-
ick, one of the Gathering’s founders and
organizers.
Readings are at Astoria Brewing
Company, the Columbian Theater, the
Voodoo Lounge, Fort George Brewery,
KALA, the Labor Temple Bar and the
Liberty Theatre. Admission buttons are
$15 for the weekend.
Singing and story circles, poetry
slams, a poetry contest, workshops,
environmental issue presentations, a
Gearshack bookstore full of poets’ work
and two art shows are all on tap.
This year, 11 new poets will join the
more than 100 presenters.
“People who give it a go for the fi rst
time, people you wouldn’t otherwise
hear from, that’s a real goal of the Fish-
erPoets Gathering, is to get people who
wouldn’t otherwise write down a poem
Josh
Wisniewski
See FisherPoets, Page 10
Kim
Menster
Corey Arnold
Waves in the Bering Sea, captured by
photographer and fi sherman Corey Arnold.