Cascadia Poetics LAB
Poetry Postcard Fest
Watershed Press
Cascadian Prophets Podcast
Cascadia Poetry Festival 8

Review of John Olson’s “The Nothing That Is”

Steven Fama, the world’s #1 John Olson fan, is at it again with a brilliant new review of Olson’s latest. How bout this cherry-picked quote on poetics: “You favored a type of poetry that was wild and surreal. A poetry full of phantasmagoria and...

John Olson on McClure’s Mysterioso 1

Each review John Olson does is a life-force, a huge energy source in itself. Have you see his latest book The Nothing that Is? Damn! This is what writing can be. He looks into Michael McClure’s Mysterioso 1 here:...

Michael McClure, reading at Moe’s in Berkeley

May 19, 2010 Michael read to a partisan crowd at the legendary Moe’s Books in Berkeley on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. The audio available here, skips past the introduction and the assorted GRAHHRS offered by the audience as Michael is welcomed to the mic. He read...

Poetry As Protein (John Olson on Michael McClure)

There is no other poet/scholar in Seattle like John Olson. In fact, there’s no one in the world quite like him. His appetite for language is unmatched. We all are our language, to some degree, but John lives words. Breathes syllables. Exhales some of the most...