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Interview with Harold Rhenisch on The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle

Harold Rhenisch interviewed by Paul E Nelson about The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle.

Wanda Coleman on American Sonnets

  Wanda Coleman, born in Los Angeles, was an award-winning poet,...

Interview with Jane Falk and Mary Paniccia Carden on the book Joanne Kyger: A Poet in Place and Time

Jane Falk and Mary Paniccia Carden are co-editors of the anthology Joanne Kyger: A Poet in Place and Time, a new book of essays examining the work of the longtime Bolinas, California resident poet. Conducted October 5, 2024.

Press Release: CASCADIA POETICS LAB TO HOST POSTCARDS FROM MAPES CREEK EVENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2024Contact: Paul E. Nelson,...

Wish You Were Here (Drew Myron)

It’s postcard season, and I’m ready! Once, a young friend went to Europe....

Bonus for Non-U.S. Poetry Postcard Fest Participants

Bonus for non-USA Poetry Postcard Fest participants in 2024 for the 18th iteration of the event which starts July 4, 2024.

Robert Michael Pyle Interview

Bob met me at the retro Atomic Motel and we talked for over an hour about his new book, the poems in it, his childhood, bioregionalism, his trip to Cuba, Vladimir Nabokov’s notion via biographer Brian Boyd of “attending to the individuating detail” of one’s life (an upgrade from the same notion I’ve gotten from Blake and Pound) and his general “thing” “close attention to the natural world.” It’s the June 2024 Cascadian Prophets podcast:

Poetry & Posole

Poetry and Posole Cascadia Day Celebrate the power of the natural world...

Mapes Creek Blessing

Some photos and notes from the April 27 2024 Blessing of Mapes Creek facilitated by the Cascadia Poetics Lab in Rainier Beach.

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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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Barbara Johns on Kenjiro Nomura

The paintings of Kenjiro Nomura are featured at the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington and a new book by art historian Barbara Johns, Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey, is the topic of discussion.

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David Whited Dead

Reports are still coming in but it is apparent that longtime Red Sky poet David Whited who died yesterday morning....

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Bus Poems are Back!

This FREE & ALL AGES event will be filled with poetry and music and community – you won’t want to miss it. Monday,...

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Cascadia Raining Man

From Cascadia Now: Welcome! We'd like to invite you, your group or organization to our first ever Cascadia Rainingman...

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