Patrick Dixon- Mending Holes

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.

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