Bonus Episode: Poet Rena Priest Reads "Words of Encouragement"

Congratulations to Rena Priest, named Washington's Poet Laureate in April 2021. She is the first indigenous poet to hold this prestigious position in Washington state.

"Words of Encouragement" appears in For Love of Orcas: An Anthology, published in 2019 by Wandering Aengus Press.

Photo: The Whale Sanctuary Project.