Interview with Bill Yake

Sound Poetry presents Olympia Poet, Bill Yake. His website may be found here: https://yake325.wixsite.com/bill-yake-poetry

Bill says about himself: “For many years I worked as a senior environmental scientist with the Washington State Department of Ecology, leading studies of toxic contamination in rivers, lakes, marine systems, soils, fish, aquifers, and sediments. The stories told by sediment cores were especially engaging — our successes and failures, nature’s relentlessness — not unlike the inferences drawn from poems.

I am a poet, naturalist, photographer, traveler, and occasional essayist living with my wife, Jeannette, on the verge of a ravine carved by a small chum salmon creek. Green Cove Creek feeds the southern Salish Sea (Puget Sound). It is a world rich in water, forests, mushrooms, owls, and mollusks.”