[RenRose] Fwd: Fisher Poets in PDX 2025! Monday, FEB 24! New Location! Same old Hijinks!

[Larisa Zimmerman]

For those who love the Fisher Poets, here's info on the Portland 
gathering for this year.
A flyer is attached.
Larisa
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 From Moe Bowstern:

Ahoy, Oceanic and Riparian Comrades!

Lara Messersmith-Glavin and I are happy to bring out-of-town commercial 
fishing folks to a Portland audience and invite you to attend the 2025 
FisherPoets in PDX Monday, February 24th. Here are the details:

Requested CASH ONLY donation is $5-$30 at the door. Poets will have 
books and music for sale, so bring some cash or have some sort of 
electronic payment in place if you want to buy the poets' works. The 
venue is all-ages all night. All the door money is divided equally among 
the performers.

WHERE: 3645 SE 32nd Ave, at the Oregon AFL-CIO HQ, half a block south of 
Powell.
WHEN: Monday, FEB 24th, Doors 6:30, Poets at 7

WHO: Ed Edmo, Melanie Brown, Colin Kaferle, Lloyd Montgomery, Toby 
Sullivan, Jon Broderick, Elisa Carlsen, George Wilson, Lara 
Messersmith-Glavin have all confirmed, with some possible additional 
readers, and I will take a turn if people aren't too worn out and over it.

WHAT: around 2 hours of original tales in song, poetry, and prose from a 
dozen different people's experience fishing commercially on the planet.

HOW: It's pretty low tech: there's a microphone and a short stage. The 
new venue has room for everyone! And a parking lot!

WHY: Stories are how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. 
With looming climate collapse, crazed fossil-fuel drill junkies at the 
helm of global government, migrant food gatherers and farmers are on the 
edges of impact. We have stories to share about ways of life that are 
disappearing. Gathering together reminds us of who we are, how we got 
this way, and what we care about.

Here's information <https://www.fisherpoets.org/2025.html>, including 
the full schedule of the 2025 FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon. 
FisherPoets is 100% volunteer-powered and real ground-up organizing. 
Thanks to everyone who continues to create this opportunity for almost 
100 working people from the fishing trades to share our stories.


ALSO: It's still a pandemic out there! If you were at the gathering all 
weekend, consider testing before you come! Wear a mask, wash your hands, 
and most importantly, STAY AWAY if you have symptoms. Let's keep each 
other healthy and well. We will miss you and we will be so grateful you 
did your part to keep us safe.

Let me know if you want off this list! Hope to see you there!
xo Moe and Lara

Lara has a book out! 
<https://www.upcolorado.com/university-of-alaska-press/item/4172-spirit-things> 
If you are a regular, you've heard her read a few pieces from her book 
Spirit Things and now you can get the whole thing!
Moe co-wrote abook 
<https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1467> and podcast 
<https://www.itdidhappenherepodcast.com>with a rad group of people 
documenting how people in Portland came together to fight racial terror 
in the late 80s into the 90s! Essential reading for PDX. Buy it at the 
gig and help pay off the 2024 spring tour!
Newcomer Elisa Carlsen has a book, Cormorant, 
<https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/news/cormorant-by-elisa-carlsen-shifts-how-you-feel-remorse-regret-and-rage-for-the-past>about 
salmon recovery and restoration !

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