by Ryukan | Jan 27, 2014 | Blog
Part of the reason SPLAB started the Cascadia Poetry Festival was to build better connections between all poets of the bioregion, with an emphasis on innovators. Today begins a series of posts leading up to Cascadia II on some of the poets participating in the...
by Ryukan | Nov 16, 2012 | Blog
If you are wondering what SPLAB has been up to lately, we’re scaling back in preparation of something quite huge. In our last season, Sept 2011 to June 2012, we produced 51 events. With the arrival of Ella Roque Nelson, that pace became impossible, so we decided...
by Ryukan | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog
I pulled this from the SUNY Buffalo listserv from Rob McLennan: I will be blogging soon at The Capilano Review blog, alongside Lisa Robertson, Pauline Butling + George Bowering. http://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/people/rob-mclennan/...
by Ryukan | Aug 17, 2011 | Blog
George Bowering is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. The author of more than 90 books, Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they...
by Ryukan | May 20, 2011 | Events
Who are the quintessential poets of Cascadia; that area (according to one scholar) from Cape Mendocino in northern California east to Yellowstone Lake, up the Continental Divide to (& including) the Alaska panhandle, most of British Columbia, all of Washington,...
