by Zach Charles | Aug 27, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On the morning of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Habib and Paul Nelson awoke before 6A and were hiking with full packs up to “Jack’s Shack.” But after an hour, maybe less, they knew they were not going to make it with those heavy packs. They dropped them and took...
by Ryukan | Oct 31, 2023 | Blog, podcast, podcastb
When I wrote about heart / I imagined a muscle of infinite distance writes Lorna Dee Cervantes in the poem “The Latin Girl Speaks of Rivers.” This “Latin girl” has landed in Cascadia and may be doing the best work of her life inspired by everything from...
by Ryukan | Oct 3, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
What a joy it has been to meet a Richard Brautigan scholar John Tanner in Brussels, hear him present his work on Brautigan at our 2017 Cascadia Poetry Festival and then interview him on his book about a road trip he took on the US west coast in the spirit of the...
by Ryukan | Apr 26, 2021 | Blog
SPLAB’s own Cate Gable, intrepid columnist for the Chinook Observer, observes the (ahem) “poetry” of the Minneapolis Police in the Derek Chauvin case: There are several literary devices at play here. Let’s start with understatement. “To note” is an...
by Ryukan | Jul 5, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
First an update on the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. We have 70 signups in the first 44 hours and the first two groups are complete. Lists have been sent out to groups 1 & 2. Participants in the first two groups represent: Mobile AL, Tuscaloosa AL, Castlegar...
