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Crew Spotlight | Sierra Golden | A Fisheye Perspective

Crew Spotlight | Sierra Golden | A Fisheye Perspective

I’ve worked as a commercial fisherman for the last seven years.  My father is a SE Alaska seine skipper, though, and because of that, I grew up in the harbor and on the boat, as well as in the foothills of Mount Baker. I recently received my master’s degree in creative writing from North Carolina State University, and my work has focused widely on the commercial fisheries in Alaska. Photographers…

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I count with disappointment all the time and I count reviews and reviewers and essayists who never mention women writers. I count female poets and writers who never name a female influence or peer. I’m acutely aware of how many women writers I know who work three jobs, so counting, for them, or speaking to this issue, for them, takes even more time away from what they should be doing: writing.

Judith Vollmer, interviewed by Marcella Prokop for Fourth River

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And I think where music happens in a good poem, it’s really coming from a subterranean or subconscious place, or fusion of instantaneous perceptions because it’s coming in like dictation, you hear it and you write it. It can’t be premeditated or invented. It’s the most natural thought-music that happens in a poem.

Judith Vollmer, interviewed by Marcella Prokop for Fourth River

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