Poetry & Posole THIS WEEKEND!

Poetry & Posole THIS WEEKEND!

Celebrate Cascadia with us THIS SATURDAY! THIS SATURDAY May 18, Cascadia Poetics Lab is hosting a Poetry and Posole celebration with poetry readings, book raffle, community and delicious food provided by Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs! Registration is still open! More...

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 desire by the SPLAB Board to continue events that operate at the intersection of poetics and bioregionalism, but do not require the kind of budgets as the...

Hallelujah, the Poetics of Music

(For Columbia City Gallery Literary Series, Dec 13, 2015) “We study the self to lose the self. Only when you forget yourself can you become one with all things.” – Dögen Some brief thoughts about my immediate take on the subject for which we are ostensibly...

Cracker Climate Refugees Coming to Cascadia

Was going over last year’s journal entry for this date and came across John Olson’s wonderful birthday poem for me, as well as some of his comments regarding my essay Organic In Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies. He said: Dear Paul, Glad you dug the...