Cascadia Poetics LAB
Poetry Postcard Fest
Watershed Press
Cascadian Prophets Podcast
Cascadia Poetry Festival 8

Raven Chronicles Release Party

Raven Chronicles FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DECEMBER 1, 2013 presents A Reading & Reception, celebrating our new publication,  RACE: UNDER OUR SKIN, VOL. 19, of  Raven Chronicles, A Seattle- based Journal of Art, Literature & The  Spoken Word.    JOIN US! Open to...

Easy Speak Open Mic N.25.13 8p

From T Clear: Greetings Easy Speakers! It’s time again for Easy Speak at the Hummingbird Saloon! I would be more than delighted if you came and shared your songs, poems, shopping lists, paragraphs, memos and all measures of inspired performance that take up no...

Wanda Coleman Dead at 67

Wanda Coleman died yesterday at 67. She was the SPLAB Visiting Poet in February 2002 and I don’t think I ever met a poet with a spirit as ferocious as hers. My dear friend Ethelbert Miller wrote a wonderful eulogy today and I am sharing it here because I just...

Publishing Opportunities

From Poets & Writers: 953 Lit Mags Seek Submissions Wondering where to submit your work? Our Literary Magazines database lists 953 journals that accept submissions. Listings include detailed information about what, where, and when to submit work for consideration....

Cheap Rent for Artists

I LOVE Art Space Projects, Inc. out of Minneapolis. They have a great presence here with Catherine Vandenbrink and their new building is just about to be completed. Working artists looking for cheap rent for home or work PLUS a fabulous artist community to be part of...

Habib Audio, Interview and Postcards

My posts on the August 2013 Seattle visit of Morrocan poet and Beat scholar El Habib Louai were quite long, (archived here)  so I am creating this post in the hopes that viewers of this blog will take a listen to the interview we did at the top of Desolation Peak,...

All 2013 Postcards

I have posted all my 2013 POstcard POems in one spot. See: https://wp.me/P1Xnkd-1h7. For more on the fest, see: https://poetrypostcards.blogspot.com/ For the postcard fest Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/17361938720/ The 2014 call will go out shortly...

SPLAB’s 20th Anniversary Party 1.18.14

  Save the date, January 18, 2014, 7p at Spring Street Center, 1101 15th in Seattle. We will announce the schedule for Cascadia II and celebrate 20 years of spokenword activism in Seattle.

Big Joy (Film)

Dear Paul Nelson, I’m writing to connect with you about an upcoming film screening at Northwest Film Forum this November called BIG JOY, which we think may be of interest to your community. BIG JOY is the story of the life and adventures of poet, artist and...

Call for Writers

Call for Writers: Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater and the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company announce the 2014 Phrasings Collaboration for Writers & Dancers Deadline: It must be received on or before Saturday, November 30th , 2013. Follow the instructions...