The 1st Cascadia Poetry Festival is happening at SPLAB March 24 and 25, 2012. Will this be an historic event? Advance reservations are highly suggested and are cheap at $50. Half the space is already taken. & here’s what the Gold Pass looks like:
Gold Pass
It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before turning the lights out. It’s also been described as “protest beauty” and is the collaboration of a printer (really, a book artist) and a poet, who’ve created “a full...
What end does politics serve? Surely it must serve ends beyond itself. Why seek greater bioregional autonomy? For self-determination. Yes, but what purpose in turn shall that value serve? None some may say, it’s self-justifying. But then it becomes an absolute unto itself which can be used to justify many different things, some questionable. Why not come right out at the beginning and say what you’re really for?
The primary purpose of seeking greater bioregional identity and autonomy is to serve the life of the place and its people as a whole. Indeed, the primary purpose of Politics is to serve the life of the place and its people on many levels in an equitable and sustainable way.
AWP Off-Site readings with Seattle Poets
Can I buy a Gold Pass on line?
Cant seem to find the how to here…
BB
You bet. $50 to pen@splab.org
See: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/contact-us/donatepay-for-workshops/