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Heavy Lifting Art Book (Feilcia Rice, Theresa Whitehill)
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....
Toward Cascadian Independence: For the Life of the Place as a Whole
What end does politics serve? Surely it must serve ends beyond itself. Why seek greater bioregional autonomy? For self-determination. Yes, but what purpose in turn shall that value serve? None some may say, it’s self-justifying. But then it becomes an absolute unto itself which can be used to justify many different things, some questionable. Why not come right out at the beginning and say what you’re really for?
The primary purpose of seeking greater bioregional identity and autonomy is to serve the life of the place and its people as a whole. Indeed, the primary purpose of Politics is to serve the life of the place and its people on many levels in an equitable and sustainable way.
Art & Poetry Talk: Adelia MacWilliam on Salt Spring Island
Cascadia Poetics Lab board member Adelia MacWilliam is a poet whose family settled on Salt Spring Island in the 1850s....
Interview with Brainwashed Director Nina Menkes
Cascadian Prophets interview. Why are only 8% of Hollywood movies produced by women, down from 9% 20 years ago? One Hollywood film-maker says the “male gaze” reinforced by a camera angle formula and a subject-object dynamic creates an industry rife with employment discrimination and sexual abuse and assault. That film-maker is Nina Menkes, the Producer and Director of Brainwashed: Sex Camera Power. The movie is showing now in select theaters and it is both disturbing and compelling, as well as uplifting.
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Poetics As Cosmology Open Mic + Exercise
2023 marks the third year the Cascadia Poetics Lab has offered online workshops. Started as a pandemic necessity, it...
Sharon Thesen gives Olson Lecture
Self-described Cascadian poet Sharon Thesen will give the annual Charles Olson lecture Saturday, October 29 at 1pm...
Pierre Joris on A Nomad Poetics
Pierre Joris talks to Paul E Nelson on A Nomad Poetics and reads the poem Letter to Steichen, Ed
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Pierre Joris in Seattle
The Cascadia Poetics Lab is proud to collaborate with the Philosophy Department of Seattle University, Open Books: A...
Ricardo Ruiz (We Had Our Reasons)
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.” A quote attributed to John Quincy...
Pierre Joris in Seattle
You are cordially invited to two events with legendary poet, anthologist and translator Pierre Joris, at Seattle U,...
CPL on Long Beach Peninsula
The Cascadia Poetics Lab board met at the Sou'wester Lodge in Seaview, WA, this past weekend, September 16-18, 2022...
CPL Outreach on Long Beach Peninsula
A poetry reading at the Sou’wester on the Long Beach Peninsula, WA, by Cascadia Poetics Lab board members and local allies.
Fumiko Kimura’s Life & Art by David Berger
How to capture the soul of a subject, live your life dedicated to your own art, the process of discovery and even plan...
Michael Daley Interview (Romance with the Unexpected)
I had the good fortune on Sunday, July 17, 2022 to travel to the home of Michael Daley, on Fidalgo Island, to chat...
WAPL Call for Salmon Poems
Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate, was just awarded a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets! As part...
Interview with Claudia Castro Luna
Interview with Claudia Castro Luna, recorded 17-JUNE-2022 via Zoom about her new book Cipota Under the Moon published by Tia Chucha Press.
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Postcard Fest Registration Ends July 4
Year 16 of the Poetry Postcard Fest starts on Monday, July 4, 2022 and registration will end on that day. Already...