I sing the salmon home : poems from Washington State / edited by Rena Priest.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Priest, Rena, editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthologies--Poetry.

Anthologies.

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Human ecology--Poetry.

Human ecology.

Salmon--Poetry.

Salmon.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xx, 276 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chimacum, Washington : Empty Bowl Press, [2023]

Summary:

This anthology sings of salmon--lamented and praised, hooked, and netted, spawned out and dammed from home; of their magnificence and generosity, of how the fish continue to give and of what they gave. 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 oceans.-- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Wild, sacred. I went looking for the wild one / Rob Lewis

Triangulation / Sierra Golden

Suquamish waters / Pamela Hobert Carter

Ascension, 1983 / Michelle Bombardier

Ladders / Kelli Russell Agodon

O lady of the salmon run / Nancy Canyon

A case for the canonization of salmon / Cindy Veach

Anadromous / Meagan Graves

Returning / Alex C. Eisenberg

Passionate water poem / Mary McMinn

Salt and other spells / Sarah Stockton

The salmon / Duane Niatum

Dressing / Ann Spiers

The miracle / Leslie Wharton

Communion / Dotty Armstrong

i'm a fisherman / Lauren Silver

Before I knew salmon / Georgia Johnson

Wild, sacred / Bethany Reid

Sacrifice / K'Ehleyr McNulty

The salmon of Green Cove Creek / Bill Yake

Sojourn.

(yubeč/Chinook) / Garbriela Denise Frank

Self-portrait as spawner / Sierra Nelson

Cast long / M.L. Lyke

The endless ladders / Christ Gusta

A salmon of a man / Tito Titus

Lobster / Andrew Brett

Evolution from salmon / Audrey Miller

Sojourn / Jonathan Went

Diadromous / Arianne True

The search for home / Nimisha Mondal

Rainbow streams / Maiah Merino

A rainy day is / Anne Murphy

Homecoming (in heat) / Axes Mundi

Redfish Lake / Jon Neher

At dusk, salmon spawn / Suzanne Simons

At the new year / Seth Goldstein

Bedded in wet rock like any other roe / Jill McCabe Johnson

Sampling summer chum on the Dosewallips / Cynthia R. Pratt

Uncle Les and I / Ed Stover

In or out / Laura Read

Until it be laid there / Travis Wellman

Record salmon run / Christen Mattix

When I see the salmon run in Padden Creek / Victoria Doerper

Invisible thread.

feathers of a jay / Kate Reavey

moss bright river flows / Kathryn True

Big river harnessed / Barbara Hersey

dammed rivers / John S Green

if life were sacred / Linda Conroy

watchful eyes/silent lightning / Petro C. K.

Arduous journey / Beverly Anne Jackson

jumbled fish nets / Richard Tice

big salmon in the boat / David Berger

my taste for salmon is rather distinct / Steve Schinnell

crescent moon / Jacob D. Salzer

salmon bake / Kathleen Tice

rainbow's end / Carole MacRury

starry nights/salmon run/salmon spawning / Gary Evans

muscling up the river / Tom Hahney

Invisible thread / JS Nahani

Gravel circles, there / Michael Martin

Issaquah sunrise / Michael Dylan Welch

Fabric / Cathy Lear

Departed / Hank Muska

Salmonology / Sheila Sondik

Salmon moon / Robert Sund

Fish school.

Untitled / Elaine Miller Bond

Salmon suite / Judith Roche

The fish ladder / Catherine Kyle

Lateral lines / Jennifer Preston

Otolith / Judy Blanco & Lauren Urgenson

Salmon have translucent little bones / Catherine Bull

Nugguam means to talk / Susan Landgraf

I saw a salmon leap / Linda Quinby Lambert

[silver] [shallow] [ripple] / Joanna Thomas

Dt Fish of knowledge / Griffith H. Williams

Salmon says / Wren Winfield & Richard Starkey Seaman

The genius of salmon / Julie Robinett

Tremulousness / Laura Da'

Pinned / C. R. Manley

Fish school / Jory Michelson

Water by salmon / Phelps McIlvaine

Gratitude.

Gratitude / Tara Mesalik MacMahon

My salmon poem / Misty Shipman

Winter run, Whatcom Creek / Andrew Shattuck McBride

Things I've taught my East Coast husband about salmon / Katy Shedlock

Just knowing they're down there / Molly Beck

Socioeconomic / Maya Jewell Zeller

Coho earn carbon credits / Janette Rosebrook

Zombie bears / Dayna Patterson

The upper reaches / Rick Swann

Salmon salmon (a parody of "The Tyger") / Christopher J. Jarmick

The salmyn / Neil McKay

Cento for the salmon / Joan Roger

Nature's candy / Madeline Sweet

The ones who walk again / Katy E. Ellis

Salmon bones / Joanne M. Clarkson

We are salmon people / Eileyah Ahmad

Comparing Sockeye and King salmon / Gail Tremblay

Recurring advice to myself / Finn Coffin

Escape / Karen Bonaudi

Food for fallen angels / Susan Rich

Spring salmon at night / Nancy Pagh

At night the salmon move / Raymond Carver

Midnight market window / April Ryan

Where was the best salmon of my life? / Linera Lucas

My salmon / Kathleen Flenniken

Salmon / Gabrielle Bates

A salmon scale is called a cycloid / Sylvia Byrne Pollack

Sin of omission / Susan Chase-Foster

The curved shape of salmon mouths / Randall Dills

Choices.

The s?uladxw map of Seattle / Scott Bentley

Ho' oponopono to the salmon / Catherine Crawford

Salmon breathing / Jim Bertolino

Sometimes, I tell the universe / Ronda Piszk Broatch

Salmon circle the RAS tank until reaching market weight / Shankar Narayan

from "Salmon Circle Symphony" / Peter Donaldson

Three salmon redactions / Deirdre Lockwood

Extinct / Mitzi McMillan Moore

Salmon: our Northwest pride / Julene Tripp Weaver

Pipestream / Brad Monsma

Reflections on fishing Chinook with my uncle / Darren Nordlie

May you leap upstream / Alexander A. Manzoni

A Columbia River Dam's confession to the salmon / Jerry Bryan

1047. Voluntary hallucinations 4-August-22-Valerie Reynolds / Paul E. Nelson

Choices / Patrick Dixon

Tin rock at Taylor dock / Charles Patterson

Bottom-up / John S Green

(We) choose how it ends / Matteo Tamburini

Flotilla / Rob Lewis

Vigil.

Salmon people island / Sasha LaPoint

This is not an elegy / Joannie Stangeland

Vigil / Earle Thompson

The highway / Dian Million

True Indian moern story / George Silverstar

Newhalem, late October / Caitlin Scarano

Elders / Tom Jay

The salmon contemplates mortality / Linda Malnack

The Chinook / Donald Mitchell

Salmon leap / Alicia Hokanson

The cycle / Tegan Keyes

it is wrong to wreck the world / Luther Allen

we are you / Victor Ortiz

Deep sea salmon / Eugene Marckx

The inlet / Matthew Roberts

Ambition / Tess Gallagher

Fade / Amy Gulick

Finding the poem / Alice Derry

What we owe.

What we own / Gloria Bird

Memo to the Columbia River / Priscilla Long

Every river / Carla Shafer

trout creek =̃ little water / Shin Yu Pai

when i first moved to seattle / Scott Ferry

Daylighting Thornton Creek / Mary Ellen Talley

Chum return to Johns Creek at Bayshore Preserve / Ann Batchelor Hursey

In a font called avenir book / Matha Silano

Midnight midpoint of the Cedar River Bridge / Edward Harness

Ode on a granite slab / Paul Lindholdt

150 Chinook salmon released into the Spokane RIver on August 24, 2022 / Fig DePaolo

How I became an environmentalist / Thena Westfall

I whisper anyway / Tele Aadsen

The use of weapons / John Streamas / Transplanted prayers / Rainbow Medicine-Walker

Three Sockeye in Columbia River, Oregon / Scott T. Starbuck

What salmon need: a meditation on place / Shelley Kirk-Rudeen

The green place / Jane Alynn

Branching / Em Arata-Berkel

Future of hope / Richard Revoyr.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781737040897

1737040891

OCLC:

1374272441

Publisher Number:

99994769331