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‘Anchored in Snug Harbor,’ an image taken on the west side of Cook Inlet during Patrick Dixon’s more than two decades as a commercial fi sherman.
MaRiTiMe pOeTrY
FisherPoet Patrick
Dixon is a writer,
photographer, retired
educator and former
commercial fi sherman
living in Olympia.
Dixon fi nds community
among FisherPoets
BY ANDY CAMERON
In the darkest depths of a cold Alas-
kan night, after a series of unfathomable
blunders, the steel hull of the Exxon Val-
dez came to rest upon the rocky shoul-
ders of Bligh Reef. The ship’s grounding
unleashed a swath of destruction. Over 10
million gallons of oil coated the biologi-
cal and economic riches of Prince William
Sound.
The shipwreck also sparked a creative
fi re in the heart of fi sherman and poet Pat-
rick Dixon.
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