On Friday, October 6, 2023, we opened our 7th Cascadia Poetry Festival with amazing readings from Gary Copeland Lilley, Jan Zwicky, Tim McNulty and Robert Bringhurst. David Griggs was the moderator, with Cate Gable as the emcee for the readings and Jason Wirth providing information about Watershed Press’ anthology Cascadian Zen Vol. I. The video of the full night is available below. Thank you to Amy Bilharz and Greg Bem for filming and editing these videos!
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…”
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