Category: Poetry

The Return of the Elwha King

Seattle poet Paul Nelson's ode to the runs of king salmon returning to the Elwha River after the dam is gone.
"He’s back! Belly full of planktonic diatoms, copepods, kelp, seaweed, jellyfish, starfish, bugs, amphipods & crustaceans so delicious served up at Sakura as sake..."

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The Uranium Files

Photographer Dan Hawkins and former Washington poet laureate Kathleen Flenniken witness the toxic legacy of nuclear sites in Washington: Hawkins' obsolete process involving uranium gives his images a reddish tint; two poems from Flenniken's collection Plume shed light on radioactivity lingering in the Columbia River.

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