Poets of the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Poets of the Cascadia Subduction Zone

The Cascadia Poetics Lab is having its Spring 2023 Board Retreat on Salt Spring Island and we’ve lined up some amazing poets to read at the Salt Spring Island Library. Our event last fall on the Long Beach Peninsula was a huge success thanks to Cate Gable and...
No Irritable Reaching

No Irritable Reaching

A reading organized by Paul E Nelson, Seattle & Roxi Power, Santa Cruz at Gallery 110 in Seattle’s Tashiro-Kaplan Building (artists lofts.)   Featured Poets: Sara Marie Ortíz Roxi Power Vicki Banales Farnaz Fatemi Vincent Rendoni Paul E Nelson Gabriella...
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...

(Indigenous) Cascadian Zen

SPLAB Board Member Jason Wirth and I had the good fortune to interview Wedlidi Speck about an indigenous perspective regarding the subject of Cascadian Zen. An anthology with the same name is being assembled for publication in Fall 2022. From the interview...