Cascadia Poetics LAB blog

IPRA – Making Peace in Trinidad

The International Peace Research Association gathered May 17-21, 2023, in...

Give BIG 2023 Cascadia Poetics LAB

Thanks to those folks who have supported is via Give Big in the past and...

Rescue and Revival of a Seattle Legend: Carletta Carrington Wilson Interprets James Washington Jr.

Carletta Carrington Wilson discusses Poem of Stone & Bone in honor of James W. Washington Jr.

Salt Spring Island Reading

The board of the Cascadia Poetics Lab had its spring 2023 board retreat...

ARTSFUND Community Accelerator Grant

We are proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Community...

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...

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.

AWP Off-Site Events

AWP Off-Site readings with Seattle Poets

E. Richard Atleo in Seattle & a 2005 Interview

With the assistance of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, I had the...

Richard Atleo at Seattle U

CPL Board Member Jason Wirth has arranged for Dr. E. Richard Atleo to...

ARTSFUND Community Accelerator Grant

We are proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Community Accelerator Grant funded by the Paul G. Allen Family...

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

Art & Poetry Talk: Adelia MacWilliam on Salt Spring Island

by Splabman | Nov 15, 2022

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

by Splabman | Nov 8, 2022

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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