March 30th will be an afternoon of community celebration as poets, listeners, readers, and lovers of salmon gather to share
their voices. Harold Rhenisch will be reading from his latest poetry collection, “The Salmon Shanties” and sharing his
“…a performance uniting voices of poets, salmon and people who have been weaving
Cascadia together since our islands and mountains rose from the sea. For fifteen years, I
travelled throughout Cascadia, following salmon up their rivers and setting settler history
aside to speak stories of land, salmon, water and the people who care for them.
To celebrate my book, The Salmon Shanties”, we are gathering readers, listeners, lovers
of salmon and poets, to come together and bring their voices to the conversation. The
book stands mid-stream in a river. We are a
