A new map of the Salish Sea/Ish River Ecozone by David McCloskey
New Ish River/Salish Sea Map
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splab archive blog
Cascadia Poetics LAB was known as SPLAB prior to September 2021. Here you will find past SPLAB blog articles going back to 2009.
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Earth Day Cleanup of Chinook Beach Park
It has the potential to be quite a place to experience Seattle at its best. Right on Lake Washington, with views of...
The Last Breadline
I remember the late Marion Kimes saying that Red Sky Poetry Theater was successful in part because of some of the...
Review of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia
Bless Mary Ann Moore for her wonderful review of the new anthology of Cascadia Poetry Make It True. Dig: In Lowther’s...
Port Alberni News on Cascadia Po Fest
There are two short and very sweet write-ups on the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival staged in Nanaimo, BC, on...
3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival a Huge Success
Having over the keys to a poetry festival you've created can be a nerve-wracking experience, unless the people given...
Marmot Bout Poster
At the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Fest in Nanaimo Friday night, a poetry death match.
The After Party
Saturday night (5.2.15) at 10:30PM in Nanaimo at the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival, the After Party. Read one poem and...
SPLAB Presents #3
Daniel Wolff has published numerous well-received nonfiction books, including a national best-seller that won the...
Cascadia in the Nanaimo newspaper
Poets are getting ready to squeak in Nanaimo: http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/entertainment/300815361.html
Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia
Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, published by Leaf Press, will be launched at VIU Friday, May 1st, at 7:30pm. This...
CPF3 Grid (Schedule)
Closing Reading
The Nanaimo Local Organizing Committee has updated the poster for the closing reading at this year's Cascadia POetry...
Peter Culley Dead
I abandon my self
to a blushing
of precise boundaries,
like where a squirrel would
step up to snap the branch
back fast enough
to ride the torque all the way back,
a walnut under each arm–
getaway with intent to spring
rather than English leave.
Award-Winning Cascadia Map
David McCloskey's map of Cascadia has been chosen to grace the cover of ESRI's annual Map Book, which contains about...
Three Weeks to the Fest
This (A Poet's Nanaimo) on the fest from Nanaimo poet Mary Ann Moore's blog: Wherever we let the land belong Old stone...
SPLAB-on-the-Road (Newcastle)
Samar Albuhassan joined your humble narrator for a SPLAB-on-the-Road workshop at the Newcastle Library in Renton, WA,...