by Splabman | May 1, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
“Rescue and Revival of a Seattle Legend: Carletta Carrington Wilson Interprets James Washington Jr.” is an essay in a book that chronicles a residency at the home of this under-appreciated Seattle sculptor who died in the year 2000, but not until leaving behind a body...
by Splabman | Apr 14, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
The board of the Cascadia Poetics Lab had its spring 2023 board retreat on Salt Spring Island. Our last retreat on the Long Beach Peninsula was a huge success and we made new friends in that part of the world. Promo poster by Roberta Hoffman is below. Here is the...
by Splabman | Apr 6, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’m delighted to have a postcard poem in the new anthology I Sing the Salmon Home. It’s a book of poems by Washington state poets, curated by the last state Poet Laureate (and Lummi Tribal member Rena Priest) and published by Empty Bowl. From the...
by Splabman | Mar 31, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before turning the lights out. It’s also been described as “protest beauty” and is the collaboration of a printer (really, a book artist) and a poet, who’ve created “a full...
by Splabman | Mar 27, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime postcarder Joanna Thomas is having an exhibition of 40 or so of her “dear-so-and-so” postcards just in time for her 75th birthday! Happy Birthday Joey! Check it out: Earlybird registration for the 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest goes til June 4 and the...
