Review of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia

Bless Mary Ann Moore for her wonderful review of the new anthology of Cascadia Poetry Make It True. Dig: In Lowther’s poem, Nuu-chah-nulth, Good Advice, the decolonization of “my mind,” aligns very nicely with co-editor Paul Nelson’s introductory words about the...

3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival a Huge Success

Having over the keys to a poetry festival you’ve created can be a nerve-wracking experience, unless the people given the keys are BETTER DRIVERS! Huge thanks to the Nanaimo, BC, local organizing committee for making the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival a huge...

Three Weeks to the Fest

This (A Poet’s Nanaimo) on the fest from Nanaimo poet Mary Ann Moore’s blog: Wherever we let the land belong Old stone wall, the house at Indian Beach. Village women, another lifetime, their voices, and the drums. There’s an old stone wall near Indian...

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...