By Claudia Castro Luna
One River, a Thousand Voices by Claudia Castro Luna celebrates the Columbia River’s energy, beauty and power. It honors the resilience of Native peoples who for millennia have lived along its banks and at this historical juncture with climate change, it is a call to consider our personal role as stewards of the natural world.
Castro Luna's poem is presented as an accordion book, the words cascading down the pages alongside a blue-ink stream evoking the powerful Columbia.
A portion of the proceeds from every sale through our site goes to support Columbia Riverkeeper, an organization that has been fighting for clean water on the Columbia for 20 years.
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One River, A Thousand Voices
Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018-2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018). She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon (Tia Chucha Press, 2022) and Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press, 2017) both shortlisted for the WA State Book Award in poetry, 2023 and 2018 respectively. She is also the author of One River, A Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press, 2020) and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge Press, 2016). Her most recent non-fiction is in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage) and in Memory's Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Worden (Empty Bowl). Born in El Salvador, Castro Luna lives in English and Spanish, and she writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands.
