My poems can make a difference!

Patrick Dixon is a writer/photographer retired from careers in teaching and commercial fishing. A member of the Olympia Poetry Network Board of Directors, he has been published in several literary journals, including Cirque, Claudius Speaks, Linden Avenue, Mom Egg Review, Oberon, Panoplyzine, The Raven Chronicles, Soul-Lit, The Tishman Review and World enough Writers. His work has app

eared in the anthologies Examined Life, Madrona Project, FISH 2015 and WA129, and in the Raven Chronicles’ Washington State Book Award-winning anthology, Take a Stand: Art Against Hate. Mr. Dixon is a past poetry editor of National Fisherman magazine’s quarterly, North Pacific Focus. A member of the FisherPoets Gathering organizing committee, he received an Artist Trust Grant to edit Anchored in Deep Water: The FisherPoets Anthology published in 2014. His chapbook Arc of Visibility won the 2015 Alabama State Poetry Morris Memorial Award. His poem Western Washington November was selected as a winner of the 2023 “Poems of Place” competition by the Cirque Literary Journal. His poem Twilight on the Boat" and photograph Dancing Sky were selected by the Alaska State Department of Parks and Recreation for an interpretive sign at Bird Point State Park, a beluga whale viewing spot south of Anchorage along the Seward Highway, to be installed by September, 2024. Mending Holes is his first full-length collection of poetry. Mr. Dixon, his wife Veronica and their Golden Retriever Chinook live in Olympia, WA.

Mr. Dixon’s book, “Waiting to Deliver, from greenhorn to skipper: an Alaskan commercial fishing memoir” (2022), chronicles his 20 years commercial drift salmon fishing on Cook Inlet, Alaska. Filled with poetry and photographs, the book describes Dixon’s growth from green deckhand to savvy fisherman, and all the literal and figurative rough seas he traversed. Excerpts may be read on Mr. Dixon’s website at www.PatrickDixon.net.