Pierre Joris in Seattle

Pierre Joris in Seattle

The Cascadia Poetics Lab is proud to collaborate with the Philosophy Department of Seattle University, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, WESTAF and Poets & Writers to present poet, translator and anthologist Pierre Joris for a reading, a book signing and a special...

Becoming Cascadian Starts Thursday!

SPLAB’s first bioregional poetics retreat is this weekend. Becoming Cascadian is an intensification of the work done at the Cascadia Poetry Festivals we’ve staged over the years and Andrew Schelling, our keynote poet is set to arrive on Thursday. There are...

Beer Slam & Cascadia Sponsors

Our IndieGoGo campaign has some WONDERFUL premiums, like bourbon (&/or tea) with translator Red Pine and sushi with Sam Hamill, among other things. Sponsors include: 4Culture 826 seattle Cascadia Community College Cascadia Now Central Co-op (Madison Market) Leaf...

John & Christine @ S&L

When touting Seattle’s status as a literary town, inevitably Open Books is noted, one of (now) three all poetry bookstores in the US of A. And sometimes those who note it have actually been there and John Marshall and Christine Deavel know and remember. Asked...