by Zach Charles | Apr 18, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Aldon Lynn Nielsen says the time is right to say it straight, Gil Scott-Heron should be recognized as an important writer. As the George and Barbara Kelly Professor Emeritus of American Literature at Penn State University, specializing in, among other things, African...
by Zach Charles | Apr 9, 2026 | CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
Hello Postcarders, Bioregionalists, Poets, et.al, I am writing you today on behalf of Cascadia 2050 to invite you to participate in a special project honoring the 20th Poetry Postcard Festival. We hope you will be able to start your fest a little early and send us one...
by Zach Charles | Apr 1, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Open the anthology Women of the Beat Generation to page 256 and read the words of Brother Antoninus, William Everson, who said, “A series of women poets emerged in San Francisco who identified with the establish Beat Poets even as they challenged them on their...
by Zach Charles | Mar 19, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On the Way to Kluusms is the first poetry chapbook to be published by Watershed Press, a bioregional press based in Seattle, but with strong connections to Vancouver Island. The author is Lorin Medley, whose poetry has been published in anthologies like Winter in...
by Zach Charles | Feb 27, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On November 10, 2012, Sam Hamill and Ian Boyden joined together to do an interview on Hamill’s chapbook Border Songs, as well as Habitations, a collaboration between the poet, Sam, and the painter, Ian. Fewer than a dozen copies were made of the book, although...
