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- Identifier
- wwu:2650
- Title
- Fear-mongering
- Date
- 1988-01-29
- Description
- Clipping from Skagit Valley Herald, January 19, 1988, of Tom Robbins' letter to the editor. Handwritten note gives the date.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0058
- Identifier
- wwu:901
- Title
- Melissa Sweet interview
- Date
- 2016-02-25
- Description
- Melissa Sweet is an award-winning illustrator of children's literature.
- Digital Collection
- PoetryCHaT Oral History Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- PoetryCHaT Collection
- Local Identifier
- SweetMelissa_20160225
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- with the front matter a little bit to make it a lead into the story. And there had to be -- so in this case -- That’s a great question actually. In this case, we had Jane and Heidi’s text, but we had to give them, these birds, a life. What does it mean that pigeons nest on concrete ledges, catbirds
- Identifier
- wwu:866
- Title
- Naomi Shihab Nye interview [transcript]
- Part of
- Naomi Shihab Nye interview
- Date
- 2016-05-20
- Description
- Naomi Shihab Nye is an award winning poet, songwriter, and novelist. She writes for all ages.
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- PoetryCHaT Collection
- Local Identifier
- NyeNaomiShihab_20160520
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- of my parents were very curious, they were good talkers, and they exposed me early on, way before I could read or write myself, like early years, to hearing stories, hearing poems. At bedtime there were a lot of rituals. My dad would sit and tell stories. My mom would read, would sing - had a beaut
- Identifier
- wwu:2526
- Title
- Logging protesters carted off to jail
- Date
- 1988-01-20
- Description
- Scanned clipping of a newspaper article. A hand-written note mentions the publication and date, the number 7, and underlines "State Department of Natural Resources" . A 4 is circled at the end of the article. Digital version of Fishtown0018 was split into two files.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0018a
- Identifier
- wwu:2742
- Title
- From a Landscape with Cows in it
- Date
- 1979-1980
- Description
- Collected poetry broadsides of Skagit Valley poets from 1977 to 1978, as collected in Fishtown0126. Within is Fishtown0127 through Fishtown0139.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0130
- Identifier
- wwu:38756
- Title
- Janet Wong interview
- Date
- 2017-07-30
- Description
- Janet Wong is an American poet, author of more than 30 books, and recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Excellence in Poetry for Children Award.
- Digital Collection
- PoetryCHaT Oral History Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- PoetryCHaT Collection
- Local Identifier
- WongJanet_20170730
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- about who I really am and what I do or don’t do– All this form wants to know is: what kind of other are YOU? Janet Wong Edited Transcript – July 30, 2017 Children & Teen Poetry Collection (PoetryCHaT) 25 ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Then the Mentor Text, my mentor po
- Identifier
- wwu:2707
- Title
- An Open Letter
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- Typed copy of a letter Richard Gilkey sent to many publications. This copy has "COPY" written in red ink through the letter.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0086
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- An Open Letter: I am obliged to respond to inferences in the local press coverage of the Fishtown clear-cut logging issue. In particular, I take exception to references to those in dissent as ex-hippies, indigents who pay no taxes and radicals who put spikes in trees. Because my name was reported on
- Identifier
- wwu:2727
- Title
- Fishtown Woods
- Date
- 1988-01-16
- Description
- Two documents taped together: a letter by the Great Blue Heron Society from January 16, 1988, and a clipping of the Channel Town Press, October 27, 1987 of Don Coyote's "On the dark side of the moon." The Channel Town Press article is slightly cut at the top. "Charley Kraft" at the end of the article was corrected to "Charlie Krafft."
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0087
- Identifier
- wwu:38772
- Title
- Rebecca Davis interview
- Date
- 2017-06-24
- Description
- Rebecca Davis is a senior editor for Boyds Mills Press and WordSong, a U.S. children's poetry imprint.
- Digital Collection
- PoetryCHaT Oral History Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- PoetryCHaT Collection
- Local Identifier
- DavisRebecca_20170624
- Identifier
- wwu:2676
- Title
- Letters to the editor page
- Date
- 1988-01-28
- Description
- Clipping of the Seattle Times, January 28, 1988, (A11) the letters to the editor page. Parts have been ripped, encroaching on the text.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0078
- Identifier
- wwu:38774
- Title
- Rebecca Davis interview [transcript]
- Part of
- Rebecca Davis interview
- Date
- 2017-06-24
- Description
- Rebecca Davis is a senior editor for Boyds Mills Press and WordSong, a U.S. children's poetry imprint
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- PoetryCHaT Collection
- Local Identifier
- DavisRebecca_20170624_01
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- : Still with that market in mind. Yes, absolutely, what’s possible. NJ: Sylvia brought up something I’d like to come back to about illustration. Do you make the decision -is that your decision about who illustrates somebody’s collections? RD: Yes, usually I start with the text and think about what k
- Identifier
- wwu:2512
- Title
- Bob
- Date
- 1960
- Description
- Undated; approximate date range 1960-1990. A manilla envelope with Japanese calligraphy in black ink. The name Bob is in English, brushed with red ink. Size: 27 x 19 cm. (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0007
- Identifier
- wwu:2579
- Title
- cover
- Part of
- Fishtown and the Skagit River Exhibit Card
- Date
- 2010-06
- Description
- Exhibit card by the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington, for their Fishtown exhibit in the Summer of 2010.
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0096a
- Identifier
- wwu:2557
- Title
- Eviction closes book on Fish Town
- Date
- 1989-06-21
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0100
- Identifier
- wwu:2525
- Title
- Proposed Format for Poetry and Art of Fishtown Forum
- Date
- 2012-05-20
- Description
- Outline for a forum. Handwritten note indicates year.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0017
- Identifier
- wwu:2770
- Title
- Fishing
- Date
- 1977-1978
- Description
- Collected poetry broadsides of Skagit Valley poets from 1977 to 1978, as collected in Fishtown0126. Within is Fishtown0127 through Fishtown0139.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0139
- Identifier
- wwu:2515
- Title
- Side two
- Part of
- Bob
- Date
- 1960
- Description
- Undated; approximate date range 1960-1990. A manilla envelope with Japanese calligraphy in black ink. The name Bob is in English, brushed with red ink.
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0007b
- Identifier
- wwu:2748
- Title
- Human barricade blocks logging road near Fish Town
- Date
- 1988-01-19
- Description
- Cover story on the Skagit Valley Herald of January 19, 1988 (Vol. 103, No. 266) about protests and the Fish Town logging.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0103
- Identifier
- wwu:2642
- Title
- Great Blue Heron Society meeting notes
- Date
- 1987-1988
- Description
- 1987-1988.
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0050
- Identifier
- wwu:2509
- Title
- Coming Upstream on the First Day of Spring with the poem I promised Bo Miller
- Date
- 1960
- Description
- Undated. Approximate date span 1960-1990. Size: 28 x 22 cm. (11 x 8 1/2 in.)
- Digital Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Type of resource
- text
- Object custodian
- Special Collections
- Related Collection
- Fishtown Collection
- Local Identifier
- Fishtown0008
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- Coming Upstream on the First Day of Spring with the poem I promised Bo Miller When I paint it, I must look at it. When I write it, I must read it. There is no escape for me This is my business. Because I'm lazy, I'll probably die poor. II My friend pounds and grinds, Pounds and grinds, all