Cascadian Zen

Cascadian Zen

What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the...
Please Give Big to SPLAB in 2021

Please Give Big to SPLAB in 2021

I am asking your support for SPLAB during Give Big and contributions are being accepted now. https://www.givebigwa.org/Splab Between July 2020 and last week I have been working my ass off with the guidance of 501 Commons and specifically two of their representatives,...

Denise Levertov: Poet of Inter-Relations

Daphne Marlatt was kind enough to allow us to publisher her Levertov Panel notes: Denise Levertov:  Poet of Inter-Relations (by Daphne Marlatt) A few weeks after I’d turned 21 I had the opportunity to ask Denise Levertov a question vital to me as a young writer.  This...

Marlatt and Stablein Workshops

There are two remarkable workshops being offered at the 4th Cascadia Poetry Festival in Seattle, November 3-6. Both are on Friday morning, November 4. Space is limited for both workshops. Daphne Marlatt, the remarkable Vancouver poet associated with the TISH group of...