The board of the Cascadia Poetics Lab had its spring 2023 board retreat on Salt Spring Island. Our last retreat on the...
Salt Spring Island Reading
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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.
ARTSFUND Community Accelerator Grant
We are proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Community Accelerator Grant funded by the Paul G. Allen Family...
No Irritable Reaching AWP Off-Site Reading
No Irritable Reaching poetry reading Off-Site AWP March 10, 2023 Roxi Power, Paul E Nelson, un-indicted co-conspirators
Samthology Campaign
A book to honor Sam Hamill will be launched at the Cascadia Poetry Festival in Anacortes, May 9-12, 2019. Ian Boyden...
Prophets over Patriots
It was a theme back in the mid-90s for SPLAB to counter-program the Super Bowl. We got great press for our annual...
American Prophets Elliott Bay Books Sunday, Feb 3, 3pm
Dear SPLAB-Fan, I have several events at which I will be promoting American Prophets and I hope to see you at one or...
Make It True meets Medusario Anthology
Make It True meets Medusario is a bilingual anthology was spawned by two previous anthologies and combined into one to...
SPLAB@25 Video
Paul Nelson is a master interviewer and this fact also belongs to his poetic life and legacy. His interviews are not about poetry and prophecy, but rather they are of poetry and prophecy.
Interview Workshop at Open Books
I am delighted to be celebrating the release of American Prophets by way of doing interview workshops in and around...
SPLAB’s 25th Anniversary Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPLAB TO CELEBRATE 25th ANNIVERSARY DECEMBER 14 IN AUBURN WASHINGTON Public Reading...
Worldwide Reading for Freedom of the Press and in Memory of Jamal Khashoggi on the 70th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 2018
SPLAB is honored to participate in a Worldwide Reading for Freedom of the Press and in Memory of Jamal Khashoggi on...
25th Anniversary Bookmark
Thank you Koldo Barroso for the fantastic 25th Anniversary SPLAB bookmarks. We hope to see you 7:30pm, December 14,...
SPLAB Donates Audio Archives to White River Valley Museum
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE Northwest Broadcaster and Poet Paul Nelson Donates Historic Radio Programming Archive to...
Slametan for Sam Hamill
Though he may not have been excited about the notion of a Javanese ritual event centered around his life, there will...
Two Postcard Events!
The August POetry POstcard Fest happens for the 12th year in 2018. The fest has become the biggest annual funder of...
Reviews of Becoming Cascadian
To redefine our lives and the places we live by Bioregion, rather than by political boundaries, is not the work of a single morning. It will require small cadres of committed people who become nature literate, write instructive poems and essays, and gradually make sense to their neighbors. This program, Becoming Cascadia, was one node in a larger effort that has been developing. This particular workshop, however, drew not only on Cascadian writers, but drew a handful of people who have been at work a long time on the job! Touring Kubota Gardens provided a direct view deep into the bioregion for many reasons. Eating meals as a group solidified our sense of community. Concluding with poetry gave ceremonial fragrance. The sharing of ideas, books, and other resources, will remain central. Thanks to Mark Gonnerman for a list of resources. Thanks to all for straight talk and careful listening. – Andrew Schelling
Becoming Cascadian Starts Thursday!
SPLAB's first bioregional poetics retreat is this weekend. Becoming Cascadian is an intensification of the work done...
Become Cascadian in Two Weeks
The retreat we have been planning for a few months happens in two weeks. Becoming Cascadian was a response to the...