This week, Tyrone (https://www.facebook.com/Wyam-Publishing-2251985795129051/) and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "Celilo Falls Inundation" and "Words and Actions," and hypocrisy.
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Check out this episode to also hear about virtual poetry events taking place during the week of March 29th.
Links to the topics we touch on:
1. Celilo Fish Committee: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/celilo_fish_committee_1935_1957_/#.YGDuUuZlBbU
2. Calls for dam removal: https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/oct/14/pacific-northwest-tribes-remove-columbia-river-dams/
3. The Nez Perce’s efforts at damn removal: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/salmon-people-a-tribes-decades-long-fight-to-take-down-the-lower-snake-river-dams-and-restore-a-way-of-life/
Photo of Tyrone Ross Thompson by Dean Davis for his “Pictures of Poets” project.
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