Molly Fisk

This year the river rages past early swimming holidays. It’s still not summer water, pulls the kayakers under, snowmelt and current, dam releases, a full-grown bear almost swept away, emerging battered and coughing on the near shore to disappear, chastened maybe, lucky. Even sons and daughters born here, who know each boulder by name and […]

This week I’m going to do something for the last time. I’m not retiring, I’m just stopping. Most poets don’t retire, partly for money reasons but partly because the most creative years for artists are their 70s and 80s. Plus, when you love what you’re doing, why would you not do it? Making something out […]

October 19, 2020 – Nevada County’s inaugural Poet Laureate Molly Fisk has edited an anthology of poems about climate crisis: California Fire & Water. This book is the culmination of Fisk’s Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship project designed to help Californians face uncertainty and express their personal responses to the climate crisis. Funded by […]