Cascadia Poetry Festival Bout

The local organizing committee in Nanaimo is working hard to make the third iteration of the fest, April 30-May3, 2015, a huge success. They have created a poster for one of the lighter events at the Festival, the Marmot Bout. Named for an alter ego of the emcee,...

Low Cost Workshops at Cascadia-Nanaimo

Press Release Cascadia Poetry Festival Affordable Workshops Four fantastic workshops (only $60 each!) will be happening at Vancouver Island University where many of the main events for the festival are being held. You do not need a festival gold pass to sign up for a...

Allergic to Cats (audio)

Wednesday night I attended a poetry reading of younger women poets on Capitol Hill. Organized by Jocelyn Macdonald, it was called Allergic to Cats A Feminist Poetry Reading. While some poets could have “sung shorter” as they say in Taos, the evening was...

SPLAB Poetry Bout 3.30.13 12:30P

SPLAB is delighted to be part of the Small Press Expo at the Hugo House as part of APRIL Fest. We’ll be presenting a poetry bout of four poets, two from the home team (Cascadia) and two from that state to which we want to ship our Hanford Nuclear Waste, New...

Anastacia Tolbert at Doe Bay 2.20.11, 2.21.11

February 20 – Anastacia Tolbert – 7P plus Open Mic. Emcee Alex Bleecker. Anastacia Tolbert is a writer, Cave Canem Fellow, 8th grade teacher and Resident Writer at Seattle Girls’ School. She is the recipient of the 2004 San Diego Journalism Press Club Award for the...