Two Cascadian Zen poets from central Cascadia are in Seattle, Friday, March 20, 2026, at 6:30 at Arundel Books. You can listen to our 2024 interview with Robert Michael Pyle here. Both poets are deeply connected to place and have been writing for a long time. Arundel Books is a well-run independent book store in Pioneer Square hosting a fair amount of readings. They also have an excellent rare books collection. From the WP press release:
WATERSHED PRESS is a small, independent literary press based in the heart of Cascadia. Dedicated to bioregional and place-based literature, they publish works that speak to and from the practice of its land, ecology, and community. This reading features two exceptional books by two extraordinary poets.
ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE, whose books include the Northwest classics Wintergreen, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Sky Time in Gray’s River; the acclaimed novel Magdalena Mountain; and a flight of butterfly books including Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest. They have won the John Burroughs Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Washington Book Awards, two National Outdoor Book Awards, and Nature Matrix was finalist for the 2021 PEN America Award for the Art of the Essay. Swimming with Snakes is his fifth full collection of poems and his thirtieth book.
JAMES DOTT, the son of a geologist and a naturalist who kindled his love of nature and natural history, began writing poetry and fiction at an early age. After retiring from elementary school teaching, James was able to dive deeper into writing. He is the author of several chapbooks and two poetry collections, A Glossary of Memory and Another Shore.
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