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 April 30-May 3. He will be giving a keynote address about Cascadia on Friday morning (May 1). Join us if you can! http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/ Congratulations, David!
We need to learn from Fujitaro and see the gardens that can grow from our wastelands, from the Pacific trash heap to the City of Seattle dump to the logged former forestland to the filled in estuaries of rivers like the Duwamish that make the Port of Seattle or Marshlands that make Baltimore’s inner harbor to the sprawl of LA and suburbs around all cities in this country to the merciless businesses of insurance and pharmaceuticals and lobbying and media (social, in particular) and AI and bottled water and so on.
A workshop for poets interested in making the most out of the summer Poetry Postcard Fest and the end of fest daysong, day-long writing ritual,
Writing poetry in a time of crisis, Ukraine, postcards.”War tries to destroy culture because culture sustains identity and memory. Literature is not only a victim of war, it is an instrument of survival, resistance, witnessing – and, sometimes, welcome refuge…”
Thanks, Paul–an unexpected honor!
Will present “A Portrait of Home: Introducing the New Master Map of Cascadia”
on May Day, 2015–consider it a biogeographical invitation to cultural independence!