GENO LEECH
Guys would ask me to read to them. They’d like it. Guys who go to sea read a lot of books; there’s a lot of intelligent guys out there from all walks of life.
—Geno Leech
Wesley Geno Leech, who lives in Chinook, Wash., worked for years as a merchant marine and commercial fisherman in the Pacific Northwest. He said he started reading his poems while out at sea to entertain his fellow shipmates.
Geno Leech at the 2009 Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon.