Cascadia Poetics Lab board member Adelia MacWilliam is a poet whose family settled on Salt Spring Island in the 1850s. Adelia has struggled with the settler amnesia and is part of what promises to be a fascinating talk on Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 2pm at the Salt Spring Library. We hope to see you there.
On February 21, 2025, Zach Charles and I (Veronica Martinez) visited Seattle University to talk about Cascadia 2050, CPL's youth initiative, to one of Professor Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs' poetry courses. The class had about 20 undergraduates attending. We talked to...
We opened our second day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on Saturday, November 2, 2024 with a panel entitled "Issei Zen & Other Migrations." The panel explores the work of writers that experienced the Japanese internment camps in America and the impact of...
Participating in this reading was a powerful way to engage in community that is willing to, with humility, speak up against the injustices swarming like locusts right now.
Sounds so interesting. Too bad it can’t also be zoomed for us far away folks.
I would love to be there and listen. I remember Salt Spring from my childhood and I put it into my novel – Alberta & the Spark. One day – I need to go back up there and see that it gets out and read on the Island. I would be happy to mail a copy to Adelia MacWilliam.
I would drive up and ferry over if my passport hadn’t been stolen.
Of course all poets are welcome here at my house in Astoria Oregon!