FISHERPOETS GATHERING
very February since 1998, a collection of “deckhands and skippers, cannery workers and shipwrights, young greenhorns and old timers, strong women and good-looking men” have gathered at the misty patch of earth where the Columbia meets the Pacific to share the poetry and music of their trade. The FisherPoets Gathering is one of Astoria, Oregon’s most magical events; in a normal year, poets inhabiting