18th annual
FisherPoets Gathering
February 27 - March 1, 2015
The FisherPoets Gathering is steaming toward Astoria, a bone in her teeth and looking good.
Our delightful and varied venues are back on board: the Wet Dog Cafe, the Voodoo Lounge, the Columbian Theater, the Astoria Event Center, Fort George Brewery's Lovell Showroom, KALA gallery, the Columbia River Maritime Museum and, new this season, Pier 11.
FisherPoets Gathering buttons will still be $15 and good, like always, to all venues and workshops all weekend. Students 18 years and under can come for free. We'll have buttons for sale at each venue and at the FisherPoets Gathering Gearshack, 1144 Commercial St., beginning at noon Friday February 27. Buttons will also be available around town earlier in the week at Lucy's Books, Old Town Framing and the Wet Dog Cafe.
Expect performances from scores of fisherpoets Friday and Saturday nights and lots of company. Saturday morning we'll have writing and issues-related workshops, tours of old canneries and working fishing boats. Friday and Saturday afternoons we'll have film at the Columbian Theater and our Story Circle at the Astoria Event Center. Our bookstore, the Gearshack, will be open all weekend for fans to check out their favorite fisherpoets' books and cds or to bid on silent auction items or to sit in on the occasional musicians' jams there. Stay late for the annual Poem Contest finale and for open mic and for dancing. Or drop by the Columbian Theater and rock with the Ratfish Wranglers. Sunday morning we'll say "farewell" to all at the Astoria Event Center with a little Gospel sing just for fun followed by something very short from those fisherpoets what want to.
We'll keep a list below of fisherpoets joining us in 2015. If you don't find your name, and you expect to read, better contact us quick. Check the 2015 schedule while you're at it.
2015 Fisherpoets
Tele Aadsen, Bellingham WA
Maryna Ajaja, Port Townsend WA
Dave Atcheson, Sterling AK
Fred Bailey, Gabriola Island BC
Harlan Bailey, Martinez CA
Rich Bard, Vashon WA
Lou Beaudry, McCall ID
Gordon Bok, Camden ME
Joel Brady-Power, Bellingham WA
Jon Branshaw, Westport WA
Jon Broderick, Cannon Beach OR
Max Broderick, Cannon Beach OR
Abigail Calkin, Gustavus AK
Jon Campbell, Narragansett RI
Wayne Chimenti, Port Townsend WA
Nancy Cook, Astoria OR
Billie Delaney, Port Townsend WA
Dave Densmore, Astoria OR
Pat Dixon, Olympia WA
Margaret Doyle, Orcas Island WA
John Elliott, Saltspring Island BC
Maria Finn, Sausalito CA
Erin Fristad, Port Townsend WA
Mary Garvey, Seaview WA
John Hagerty, South Bend WA
Lorrie Haight, Long Beach WA
Sue Hanson, Poulsbo, WA
Patty Hardin, Long Beach WA
Hannah Heimbuch, Homer AK
Meezie Hermansen, Kasilof AK
Tom Hilton, Portland OR
Paul Holmberg, Palmer AK
Will Hornyak, Portland OR
Vicki Horton, Port Townsend WA
Holly Hughes, Indianola WA
Mary Jacobs, Ophir OR
Cary Jones, Eugene OR
Rachel Kallander, Seattle WA
James Kasner, Eugene OR
Gary Keister, Port Townsend WA
Marcia King, Kauai HI
Rich King, Kauai HI
RJ Kopchak, Cordova AK
Hobe Kytr, Astoria OR
Elena Lansing, Salem OR
Phil Lansing, Boise ID
Elijah Lawson, Seattle WA
Geno Leech, Chinook WA
Alan Lovewell, Monterey CA
Irene Martin, Skamokawa WA
Dennis McGuire, Cordova AK
Pat McGuire, Cordova AK
Ron McDaniel, Sulphur Springs AR
Alec McMurren, Petersberg AK
Buck Meloy, Bellingham WA
Jack Merrill, Islesford ME
Lara Lee Messersmith-Glavin, Portland OR
Joel Miller, Portland OR
Lloyd Montgomery, Wasila AK
Annie Orr, Port Townend WA
John Palmes, Juneau AK
Niel Pfundt, Bellingham WA
Don Pepper, Alert Bay BC
Jen Pickett, Jyväskylä Finland
Bob Powell, Tarpon Springs FL
Dano Quinn, Seattle WA
Doug Rhodes, Craig AK
Brian Robertson, Powell River BC
Robin Rosemond, Cordova AK
Steve Schoonmaker, Kasilof AK
Rob Seitz. Los Osos CA
Shanghaied on the Willamette, Portland OR
Jay Speakman, Gearhart OR
Emilie Springer, Homer AK
Clem Starck, Dallas OR
Jeff Stonehill, Seattle WA
Sean Talbot, Portland OR
Jim Toteff, Kalama WA
Ray Troll and the Ratfish Wranglers, Ketchikan AK
Brad Warren, Seattle WA
Mariah Warren, Sitka AK
Kelley Watson, Port Townsend WA
Clark Whitney, Soldotna AK
Steve Willard, Marblehead MA
George Wilson, Portland OR
Hillel Wright, Denman Island BC
Anna Young, Cordova AK
Our delightful and varied venues are back on board: the Wet Dog Cafe, the Voodoo Lounge, the Columbian Theater, the Astoria Event Center, Fort George Brewery's Lovell Showroom, KALA gallery, the Columbia River Maritime Museum and, new this season, Pier 11.
FisherPoets Gathering buttons will still be $15 and good, like always, to all venues and workshops all weekend. Students 18 years and under can come for free. We'll have buttons for sale at each venue and at the FisherPoets Gathering Gearshack, 1144 Commercial St., beginning at noon Friday February 27. Buttons will also be available around town earlier in the week at Lucy's Books, Old Town Framing and the Wet Dog Cafe.
Expect performances from scores of fisherpoets Friday and Saturday nights and lots of company. Saturday morning we'll have writing and issues-related workshops, tours of old canneries and working fishing boats. Friday and Saturday afternoons we'll have film at the Columbian Theater and our Story Circle at the Astoria Event Center. Our bookstore, the Gearshack, will be open all weekend for fans to check out their favorite fisherpoets' books and cds or to bid on silent auction items or to sit in on the occasional musicians' jams there. Stay late for the annual Poem Contest finale and for open mic and for dancing. Or drop by the Columbian Theater and rock with the Ratfish Wranglers. Sunday morning we'll say "farewell" to all at the Astoria Event Center with a little Gospel sing just for fun followed by something very short from those fisherpoets what want to.
We'll keep a list below of fisherpoets joining us in 2015. If you don't find your name, and you expect to read, better contact us quick. Check the 2015 schedule while you're at it.
2015 Fisherpoets
Tele Aadsen, Bellingham WA
Maryna Ajaja, Port Townsend WA
Dave Atcheson, Sterling AK
Fred Bailey, Gabriola Island BC
Harlan Bailey, Martinez CA
Rich Bard, Vashon WA
Lou Beaudry, McCall ID
Gordon Bok, Camden ME
Joel Brady-Power, Bellingham WA
Jon Branshaw, Westport WA
Jon Broderick, Cannon Beach OR
Max Broderick, Cannon Beach OR
Abigail Calkin, Gustavus AK
Jon Campbell, Narragansett RI
Wayne Chimenti, Port Townsend WA
Nancy Cook, Astoria OR
Billie Delaney, Port Townsend WA
Dave Densmore, Astoria OR
Pat Dixon, Olympia WA
Margaret Doyle, Orcas Island WA
John Elliott, Saltspring Island BC
Maria Finn, Sausalito CA
Erin Fristad, Port Townsend WA
Mary Garvey, Seaview WA
John Hagerty, South Bend WA
Lorrie Haight, Long Beach WA
Sue Hanson, Poulsbo, WA
Patty Hardin, Long Beach WA
Hannah Heimbuch, Homer AK
Meezie Hermansen, Kasilof AK
Tom Hilton, Portland OR
Paul Holmberg, Palmer AK
Will Hornyak, Portland OR
Vicki Horton, Port Townsend WA
Holly Hughes, Indianola WA
Mary Jacobs, Ophir OR
Cary Jones, Eugene OR
Rachel Kallander, Seattle WA
James Kasner, Eugene OR
Gary Keister, Port Townsend WA
Marcia King, Kauai HI
Rich King, Kauai HI
RJ Kopchak, Cordova AK
Hobe Kytr, Astoria OR
Elena Lansing, Salem OR
Phil Lansing, Boise ID
Elijah Lawson, Seattle WA
Geno Leech, Chinook WA
Alan Lovewell, Monterey CA
Irene Martin, Skamokawa WA
Dennis McGuire, Cordova AK
Pat McGuire, Cordova AK
Ron McDaniel, Sulphur Springs AR
Alec McMurren, Petersberg AK
Buck Meloy, Bellingham WA
Jack Merrill, Islesford ME
Lara Lee Messersmith-Glavin, Portland OR
Joel Miller, Portland OR
Lloyd Montgomery, Wasila AK
Annie Orr, Port Townend WA
John Palmes, Juneau AK
Niel Pfundt, Bellingham WA
Don Pepper, Alert Bay BC
Jen Pickett, Jyväskylä Finland
Bob Powell, Tarpon Springs FL
Dano Quinn, Seattle WA
Doug Rhodes, Craig AK
Brian Robertson, Powell River BC
Robin Rosemond, Cordova AK
Steve Schoonmaker, Kasilof AK
Rob Seitz. Los Osos CA
Shanghaied on the Willamette, Portland OR
Jay Speakman, Gearhart OR
Emilie Springer, Homer AK
Clem Starck, Dallas OR
Jeff Stonehill, Seattle WA
Sean Talbot, Portland OR
Jim Toteff, Kalama WA
Ray Troll and the Ratfish Wranglers, Ketchikan AK
Brad Warren, Seattle WA
Mariah Warren, Sitka AK
Kelley Watson, Port Townsend WA
Clark Whitney, Soldotna AK
Steve Willard, Marblehead MA
George Wilson, Portland OR
Hillel Wright, Denman Island BC
Anna Young, Cordova AK
