by Zach Charles | Aug 27, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On the morning of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Habib and Paul Nelson awoke before 6A and were hiking with full packs up to “Jack’s Shack.” But after an hour, maybe less, they knew they were not going to make it with those heavy packs. They dropped them and took...
by Zach Charles | Jul 30, 2025 | podcastb
Arthur Waley, Gary Snyder, Burton Watson and Red Pine are among the legendary translators who have taken on the work of T’ang Dynasty hermit poet Han Shan aka: Cold Mountain. Or make that poets from perhaps before the T’ang Dynasty, as Peter Levitt points out in a new...
by Zach Charles | Feb 1, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
It is said of the poetry of Andrew Schelling that he is “locating language in watersheds and continental ridges, in rocks and plants. A poet of ancient texts and teachings, Schelling tracks the history of language and reads the world.” Not a moment too soon, either,...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
What a blessing it was December 28, 2022, to interview Shuri Kido, the accomplished Japanese poet and Zen practitioner. As I told he and his translators (Tomoyuki Endo, Forrest Gander) on that occasion, I don’t know of a higher calling at this time than building...
