This might be the most electric event each year at the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Poets of all different backgrounds, academic, street poets, slam poets, conceptual poets, sound poets, nature poets, &c. get their chance to read ONE POEM on the stage. The edition of the After Party this May in Nanaimo promises to be a memorable poetry reading, and the party atmosphere does not hurt.
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In the interview, Gutiérrez y Muhs discusses her journey from child farmworker to a professor with multiple degrees from multiple institutions, including Stanford University and Occidental College, and explains the values she learned from her working class background that she was able to incorporate later into academia. She also mentions her role as the 2018-2020 Theiline Pigott McCone Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Seattle University and her role as editor for Presumed Incompetent, both positions allowing her to focus on uplifting Chicanx and Latinx voices and highlight experiences of unequal treatment for POC, queer and working class people in academia.
To celebrate the release of their omnibus anthology Cascadian Zen: Writings from Cascadia in the Here and Now, Vol. I, Watershed Press, the Seattle-based nonprofit Cascadia Poetics Lab is holding two waterfront readings on the Lower Columbia: at Winekraft in Astoria...
Cascadia Poetry Festival 7 This year's Cascadia Poetry Festival was a great success, thanks to participants, volunteers, sponsors. The festival featured the long anticipated launch of Cascadian Zen Volume I, a collection of poetry, essays, interviews, and art that...
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