Sunday Oct 19th, 2025
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Village Books- 1200 11th St Bellingham, WA 98225
Join Village Books in welcoming PNW commercial fisherman Patrick Dixon to the Readings Gallery for his newest collection of poetry, Mending Holes!
Mending Holes is a poetry collection that encompasses the author’s growth, missteps and experiences as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. The fishing serves as a container for deeper issues: the danger and beauty of the sea, escaping the past, and watching what you love slip away, to name a few.
Patrick Dixon is a retired educator and commercial fisherman living in Olympia, Washington. He is on the Board of Directors of the Olympia Poetry Network. He is a past poetry editor of National Fisherman magazine’s quarterly, North Pacific Focus (2010-2019). He received an Artist Trust Grant for Artists to edit Anchored in Deep Water: The FisherPoets Anthology (2014). His poetry chapbook Arc of Visibility won the 2015 Alabama State Poetry Morris Memorial Award. In June of 2023 he won the Cirque Poetry of Place competition. His memoir, Waiting to Deliver, about his 20 years gillnetting for salmon on Cook Inlet, Alaska, was published in 2022. Mending Holes, his collection of poetry about commercial fishing in Alaska was released in June from MoonPath Press.
The Poetry of Work: Using Our Jobs as Source Material
Sunday Oct 19th, 2025
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Chuckanut Writers Classes
Village Books and Paper Dreams 1200 11th St. Bellingham WA 98225
Choosing from the variety of jobs held from childhood to present day, you will access vivid memories and walk through a series of single-word or short phrase individual observations based upon the five senses and emotions. After some time spent writing, the workshop will conclude with a discussion on revision. Patrick Dixon is retired from teaching and commercial fishing. He’s been writing about his fishing life for nearly 30 years and has been published widely in journals and anthologies.
Cost: $35
This class has one session on Sunday, October 19, 6:00-7:30PM at Village Books and Paper Dreams in Fairhaven.
