New Ish River/Salish Sea Map

New Ish River/Salish Sea Map

That this organization is known as the Cascadia Poetics Lab is an ongoing homage to David McCloskey, the Father of Cascadia, who has worked for 50 years to bring a bioregional awareness to people living here. He has a new map, also highly evocative and beautiful, or...
Cascadian Zen

Cascadian Zen

What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the...

Award-Winning Cascadia Map

David McCloskey’s map of Cascadia has been chosen to grace the cover of ESRI’s annual Map Book, which contains about 50 of the best new maps from around the world for 2014! David will officially unveil the new map at the Cascadia Poetry Festival in Nanaimo...

Cascadia Poetry Festival Advisory Board

If you are wondering what SPLAB has been up to lately, we’re scaling back in preparation of something quite huge. In our last season, Sept 2011 to June 2012, we produced 51 events. With the arrival of Ella Roque Nelson, that pace became impossible, so we decided...