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Upcoming Cascadian Zen Mini Tour!

Upcoming Cascadian Zen Events! The editors of Cascadian Zen Vol. I Paul...
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Interview with Bill Porter on the Film “Dancing With the Dead”

Paul E Nelson interviews Bill Porter on the film “Dancing With the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation as it screens Sunday, April 21 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian.

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Poetry and Posole Fundraiser Event!

Celebrate Cascadia Day at our Poetry and Posole Fundraiser! On May 18,...
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Mapes Creek Multicultural Blessing April 27 9am

Since moving the world headquarters of the Cascadia Poetics Lab to...
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Nicholas Gulig Interview

The Poet Laureate of Wisconsin Nicholas Gulig discussing the influence legendary poet Lorine Niedecker had on his work, recreating her trip around Lake Superior and discussing the poem’s similarity with an altar.

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Cascadian Zen at Village Books April 21, 2024

We hope to see you at Village Books in Bellingham for a reading of...
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Deluxe Edition of Cascadian Zen Volume I

Prospectus for Cascadian Zen Volume I Deluxe Edition

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CPL at Mapes Creek (dxʷwuqʷəb)

The Cascadia Poetics Lab is thrilled to be working with a community group...
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Tessa Hulls Interview Feeding Ghosts

Paul E Nelson interviews Tessa Hulls on Feeding Ghosts her graphic memoir

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Support the Cascadian Prophets Podcast!

The Cascadian Prophets Podcast Needs Support! Since 1993, Paul Nelson and...
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Giving Tuesday 2023

Giving Tuesday 2023

by | Nov 28, 2023

Throughout the year, we organize events designed to foster a community of like-minded people centered around organic, open-form poetry, and an ecological philosophy that emphasizes a connection to our bioregion, its history and the indigenous people that lived here long, long before colonization. We aim to expose our supporters to ideas about art as an art-of-living practice, inspired by the spiritual practice of understanding the bioregion surrounding us: soil, air, water, flora, fauna, and weather. In 2023, we hosted a successful Poetry Postcard Fest and the 7th Cascadia Poetry Festival, along with launching Watershed Press and publishing our anthology Cascadian Zen Vol. I. This is all thanks to donations from people like you! 

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Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Sociology Interview

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Sociology Interview

by | Nov 27, 2023

In the interview, Gutiérrez y Muhs discusses her journey from child farmworker to a professor with multiple degrees from multiple institutions, including Stanford University and Occidental College, and explains the values she learned from her working class background that she was able to incorporate later into academia. She also mentions her role as the 2018-2020 Theiline Pigott McCone Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Seattle University and her role as editor for Presumed Incompetent, both positions allowing her to focus on uplifting Chicanx and Latinx voices and highlight experiences of unequal treatment for POC, queer and working class people in academia.

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