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Michael Holloman on Clyfford Still in Cascadia

Michael Holloman (AKA M. Yellowbear) is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation, located in Northeastern Washington State. A tenured Professor in the Department of Art at Washington State University in Pullman, he discussed Abstract Expressionist legend Clyfford Still’s transformative experience as co-founder of the Nespelem Art Colony.

Mateo Quispe in Cascadia Journal

Cascadia Journal on Mateo Quispe’s canoe-styled bookcases in Auburn and in Muckleshoot Nation.

Every Death Hurts (Josh Massey on Barry McKinnon)

Josh Massey writing about meeting legendary BC poet Barry McKinnon

Cascadian Poetry at Vermillion

A note on the Cascadia Journal coverage of the Cascadia Day Poetry Explosion at Vermillion May 18 2026

Carletta Carrington Wilson: Object Lessons

News about Carletta Carrington Wilson: Object Lessons, Part of Handwork 2026 at the Bainbridge Island Art Museum, July 3 to September 20 with links to archive interviews Paul E Nelson conducted with Carletta.

Postcarding & Daysinging (A Workshop)

Postcarding and DaySonging (A Workshop). In this session it will be a presentation of how the postcard fest developed, how the daysong developed, how I prepare for the fest and how participants attending prepare for the fest, as well as how to prepare for a successful daysong. The similarities of the daysong to serial poetry could be discussed, as well as the effort to put one’s self into the open, which has benefits in one’s own life.

Writing Activism from Within a Texas Prison (By Katie Sarah Zale)

Katie Sarah Zale on the case of incarcerated writer Kwaneta Harris and her prison conditions and the state of U.S. justice.

CJ Prince Has Passed

The Conversation Continues: A Gedenkschrift for C.J. Prince

Postcards at Kubota Garden

Free Poetry Postcard Collage workshop and tour of Kubota Garden supported by 4Culture.

Bob Pyle and Jim Dott in Seattle

ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE and Jim Dott Read at Arundel Books on March 20 2026 hosted by Watershed Press

Volunteers Need for Postcard Activations + CPL News

News about Poetry Postcard Activations in Rainier Beach, a new Rainier Beach Arts Roundtable and the recent CPL board decision to lay off all staff.

Rainier Beach Poetry Postcard Activations

Poetry Postcard “Activations” with postcard collage-making materials, postcards, pens, scissors and a grid for the words that will go into the creation of a Personal Universe Deck for each park where we plan events.

Koon Woon Tribute Reading (with video)

Info on the tribute reading for Koon Woon, Seattle poet and publisher who is fighting stage four pancreatic cancer. C&P Coffee Company, 5612 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136.

Spokane Memorial for Renee Nicole Good

Spokane Memorial for Renee Nicole Good organized by Greg Bem

Jan 2, 2026 Interview with Cornelius Eady on Proof

You’d expect poetry to be part of an event inaugurating such a figure and that the poem offered for the occasion would be bland, written by a committee, or full of platitudes, but the poem delivered yesterday matched perfectly the tone of a campaign that appears to be built on mutual respect, vision, human rights and empathy.

Cascadia Poetics LAB was known as SPLAB prior to September 2021. Here you will find past SPLAB blog articles going back to 2009.

In Praise of Andrew Schelling’s Course on The Cantos

Adelia MacWilliam of the Cascadia Poetics Lab writes in praise of the Cantos of Ezra Pound course facilitated by Andrew Schelling

NW Dharma Association on Cascadian Zen

Cascadian Zen has received a wonderful reception from the regional Zen community. The Northwest Dharma Association published a blog post about the book. An excerpt:

The original idea for the book and Watershed Press came from a small, literary arts organization called The Cascadia Poetics Lab. It is based in the Rainier Beach neighborhood in Seattle—we celebrate our 30th anniversary in December 2023—and its mission is “Empowering people to practice poetry & deepen connections to place, self & the present moment.”

Robert Bringhurst The Ridge Interview Part 2

Through his books, I took lessons from Ezra Pound, who was a schoolmaster at heart and had a lot of things to say about what young poets should read and how they should read it. His politics were bonkers, but his ear was a good ear. I learned a lot from him and from others. But it dawned on me one day that my literary schooling had a gaping hole in the center. Except as a colonial construction, the land I was born in – the whole continent and hemisphere I was born in – was missing from this otherwise detailed map of the literary world. It was as if there were no Native American culture, no Native American literature – and I knew this to be false,

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