Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate, was just awarded a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets! As part...
WAPL Call for Salmon Poems
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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.
New Ish River/Salish Sea Map
A new map of the Salish Sea/Ish River Ecozone by David McCloskey
Give Big 2022
Support Cascadia Poetics Lab with a contribution via Give Big. We want to increase awareness of our work
Poetry Postcard Fest Orientation
An orientation for the 15th Poetry Postcard Fest via Zoom, Saturday, June 19, 2021, 10am PDT.
New SPLAB Board Members
Two new members of the SPLAB Board of Directors. A treasurer is still needed on the board.
Cate Gable on Police Poetry
SPLAB's own Cate Gable, intrepid columnist for the Chinook Observer, observes the (ahem) "poetry" of the Minneapolis...
Please Give Big to SPLAB in 2021
Case for supporting SPLAB during Give Big 2021
The Challenge of Editing a Beat Legend
A wonderful look at the working style of one of SPLAB's poetry heroes, Michael McClure, as described by his last...
Kubota Garden Poems
From Lola Peters: Kubota Garden Revealed Your Kubota Garden Poem Open, online, poetry reading Monday, April 12,...
Richard Hugo House and the Writing Community
It is with great sorrow that I sit to compose this post about the Seattle writing community. For many years now,...
(Indigenous) Cascadian Zen
SPLAB Board Member Jason Wirth and I had the good fortune to interview Wedlidi Speck about an indigenous perspective...
Christine Lowther’s Tree Anthology
Christine Lowther, the Poet Laureate of Tofino, BC, and a Make it True poet, had a call for poets who love TREES. IT...
Tetsuzen Jason Wirth on SPLAB Ahimsa
How are two of SPLAB's key programs (the August POetry POstcard Fest and the Cascadia Poetry Fest related?) See...
Mike O’Connor Obituary
Mike O’Connor August 3, 1944 - January 4, 2021 https://www.ptleader.com/stories/mike-oconnor Obit by Tim McNulty and...
Name as Fundamental Pattern
Join Ian Boyden for a reading of poems from A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations, a collection of poems translating the names of schoolchildren killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
EBSN 2021
The call for EBSN 2021, the European Beat Studies Network
SPLAB @ 27
It was just 27 years ago on this date that the organization now known as SPLAB was registered with the State of Washington as a non-profit organization.
After August Ends
POPO, the August POetry POstcard Festval was designed in part to give participants a sense of how to compose poetry...