(Vancouver, WA)  --  Washington state's poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna is getting a 100-thousand-dollar fellowship to create a series of poetry events along the Columbia River.  Castro Luna is one of 13 poets laureate nationwide to receive the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.  The fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation promotes civic programs about poetry and its role in people's lives.  Castro Luna's project will feature a series of poetry writing workshops and readings along the Columbia River, from northeast Washington to the West Coast.