Give Big – Seattle Foundation, Cascadia Poetry Festival

For the first year SPLAB is participating in the Seattle Foundation’s Give Big program. The Seattle Foundation was a supporter of SPLAB from back in our Auburn days (1997-2004), and our 2016 goal is modest, $3,500. We want to guarantee a sold-out house for the...

Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia

Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, published by Leaf Press, will be launched at VIU Friday, May 1st, at 7:30pm. This anthology is a collection of innovative and influential poets of Cascadia, the bioregion which stretches from Cape Mendocino in the south to Mt. St....

CPF3 in Nanaimo

Mary Ann Moore has sent this wonderful invite to her poetry friends: Hello friends from afar (not that far): Nanaimo is filled with poetry! It’s the skin of our city, poet Kim Goldberg says. We have a poet laureate, Naomi Beth Wakan; a poem gallery (at the downtown...