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Fishing Poetry

Let your hook always be cast.
In a pool where you least expect it,
there will be fish.

— Ovid, The Art of Love, Book III

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Short List of Past Events

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  • February 2025
  • October 2024
  • April 2023
  • March 2022
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • February 2019
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • March 2016
  • October 2015
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • August 2013
  • September 2012
  • June 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • February 2011
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • “Psycho Drain Flies”
  • “Florida’s Slippery Dicks”
  • Short Story about Sex & Seafood on the Oregon Coast
  • Poem about Family Struggles
  • Angler’s Journal Feature on Artist, Paul Gentry
  • Rocky and Rose
  • Montana State University Library Trout & Salmonid Lecture 2019
  • Review of John Larison’s novel, Whiskey When We’re Dry in Harvard Review
  • Review of Tracy Smith’s collection of poetry, Wade in the Water in Harvard Review
  • Review of Charles Bukowski: On Drinking in New York Journal of Books
  • Review of Todd Davis’ WinterKill
  • Henry Hughes’ correspondence with Charles Bukowski
  • Review of Paula Bohince book Swallows and Waves
  • Interview with Dave Miller on OPB
  • Back Seat with Fish: A Man’s Adventures in Angling and Romance
  • Fishing is pure poetry for Henry Hughes : Interview
  • Review of Wayne Harrison’s “The Spark and the Drive”
  • Review of Lauren Shapiro’s book “Easy Math”
  • Review of Dorothea’s Tanning’s “Coming to That”
  • Henry Hughes shares his three favorite books on fishing
  • Angling Trade reviews Fishing Stories
  • Christopher Camuto reviews The Art of Angling
  • “Action” wins Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award for poetry
  • Shutter Lines: New book by Henry Hughes and Paul Gentry
  • Review of Ted Leeson’s Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley
  • Hiram Poetry Review: The Art of Angling
  • Robert Pinsky comments on Moist Meridian
  • Henry Hughes reads at the Ledding Library’s Milwaukie Poetry Series
  • Big Fish was Poetry in Motion
  • Cloudbank Books review: Moist Meridian
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