Zipped into an orange snowsuit, red puffer jacket, orange balaclava, and lace-up snow boots, the actor Mark Rylance was sweating a little during a technical rehearsal of “Nice Fish,” which opened last ...

A holiday poem from Kevin Kling about the world's oldest profession... fishing. It's a cautionary tale with a bit of mythology mixed in. Up North, where the Snake and the Red Rivers flow, up where ...

Jon Broderick, founder of Fisher-Poets, pushes a skiff into deeper water beside a set gillnet in Nushagak Bay, Alaska. Credit: Chris Miller Pat Dixon wrote his first fishing poem in 1989, in the ...

A London woman has won a nationwide poetry contest about fishing. Julia Casterton's poem, titled Senor Lobelinos, talks about fishing with the man in Galicia in Spain. Angling broadcaster Keith Arthur ...

all the trouble they’re about to have with their fish. I realize I was a captive there for hundreds of years though I have no physical memory of this. I think there’s a name for this kind of empathy – ...

Painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon/Courtesy the National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 293. The first time I read Leigh Hunt's “The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit”—I must have been in college—I ...

Local seafarers will reel in audiences during the 12th-annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Ore., Feb. 27-March 1, with oral storytelling inspired by those earning a living on the water.

The last weekend in February is a slow time for Pacific Northwest and Alaska fishermen. The crab season is winding down, and the salmon aren't running yet. But in Astoria, Oregon, a historic fishing ...