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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.

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Wanda Coleman on American Sonnets

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

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2024Contact: Paul E. Nelson,...
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Wish You Were Here (Drew Myron)

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

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Press Release: Cascadia Poetics LAB to Host 18th Poetry Postcard Fest and Postcards From Here Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2024 Contact: Paul E. Nelson...
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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:

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Poetry & Posole

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

Looking at the blank canvas of a new map: merely a rough outline—what to put on? No, no, that’s the wrong question!...

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Give Big May 8, 2019

by | May 4, 2019

On May 9-12, 2019, SPLAB honors the life and legacy of Sam Hamill at our Cascadia Poetry Festival. One of Sam's best...

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Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill

by | May 2, 2019

Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill, who died April 14, 2018, at his home in Anacortes, WA. Essays, poems and an exclusive, previously unpublished interview with Sam by his literary executor, Paul E Nelson

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Give Big

by | Apr 19, 2019

Give BIG is coming! Save the date for early giving! Give Big is Wednesday May 8th, but you can schedule your gift...

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