by Zach Charles | Aug 27, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On the morning of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Habib and Paul Nelson awoke before 6A and were hiking with full packs up to “Jack’s Shack.” But after an hour, maybe less, they knew they were not going to make it with those heavy packs. They dropped them and took...
by Zach Charles | Aug 5, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
The 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival is happening October 10-12th, 2025 at the Rainier Beach Community Club. One of the featured poets is Sharon Thesen, a legendary B.C. poet who considers herself a “Cascadian poet.” She says poetry is “a bit off on an...
by Zach Charles | Jul 30, 2025 | podcastb
Arthur Waley, Gary Snyder, Burton Watson and Red Pine are among the legendary translators who have taken on the work of T’ang Dynasty hermit poet Han Shan aka: Cold Mountain. Or make that poets from perhaps before the T’ang Dynasty, as Peter Levitt points out in a new...
by Zach Charles | Jul 17, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
The outrages, for any person of conscience in the United States in the trump 2.0 era, almost come hourly. Many warned of a constitutional crisis were we to find ourselves in this situation. Disappearing non-violent citizens and tourists to for-profit gulags while key...
by Zach Charles | Apr 18, 2025 | podcastb
To go back 30 years in one’s writing is an exercise fraught with the possibility that the material is very dated, but this book, Cloudhand, Clenched Fist, by Rhea Miller, is a large exception. Case in point a passage on page 22: The more unstable a culture or...
