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Cascadian Zen Volume 2

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 teachers in the relatively short time that Zen has been known in this bioregion? What role does water play here, more so than in other bioregions and what implications does that have for the people who live here, for their practice? CLICK IMAGE TO ORDER NOW.

It is these questions and related questions that we seek to explore in the work Cascadian Zen, edited by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Paul E. Nelson, and Adelia MacWilliam, with Theresa Whitehill. Volume Two of The Cascadian Zen Anthology project is a completion of the project begun in Volume one, bringing together nonfiction, poetry, interviews, translations, and artwork that explore expressions of Zen within the Cascadia Bioregion.

The idea for this project grew out of many iterations of

the Cascadia Poetry Festival, hosted annually by the Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB, now Cascadia Poetics Lab). The collection is wide-ranging in geographic scope, with work from authors in Prince George to Willits, Kelowna to Port Townsend, Eureka to Seattle, Vancouver and Portland. Authors to be published in the two volume set include:

Sam Hamill, Mary Norbert Körte, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Cedar Sigo, Jane Hirshfield, Joanne Kyger, Philip Whalen, Denise Levertov, Tess Galagher, Brenda Hillman, José Kozer, Peter Levitt, Daphne Marlatt, Fred Wah, Meredith Quartermain, Jerry Martien, an essay by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma on Zen in the work of Sam Hamill and others

Release & Launch dates:

Release date: October, 2024
Launch date: November 1-3, 2024, Cascadia Poetry Festival 8

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Video Interviews

Interview Tetsuzen Jason Wirth on Cascadia

February 4, 2022 – Interview about the book with the editors. Jason Wirth speaks about the book’s structure.

Interview Sharon Thesen

April 22, 2021 – Sharon Thesen Interview Part 1 The Fire

Cascadian Zen Interview with Wedlidi Speck

December 18, 2020

Audio Interviews With Contributors

Michael McClure

by Michael McClure reading at Simon Fraser University February 11, 2011

Brenda Hillman

by Paul E Nelson Interview with Brenda Hillman - In a Few Minutes Before Later

Stephen Collis

by Paul Nelson Interview with Stephen Collis Part 2 - Once in Blockadia

Sam Hamill

by Sam Hamill - The Translation and Publishing of Copper Canyon Press Part 1

Michael Daley

by Paul E Nelson Interview with Michael Daley - (Romance With the Unexpected) - Part 1

Cascadian Zen Anthology

by Paul E Nelson Interview with Jason Wirth and Adelia MacWilliam

Daphne Marlatt

by Paul E Nelson Interview with Daphne Marlatt (Liquidities) - Part 1

Basket Four
Borders Without Binaries

Deborah Poe
Deborah Woodard
Edward Dorn
Briony Penn
Claudia Castro Luna
Christine Lowther
C.W. Buckley
Jerry Martien
Ursula Vaira
Theresa Whitehill
Koon Woon
Jayne Marek
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Stephen Collis
Gerard Kuperus
Matt Trease
John Olson
Tim Lilburn
Lorin Medley
Bob Rose
Jordan Abel
Fred Wah
John Brandi

Basket Five
Wilson’s Bowl

Phyllis Webb
Stephen Collis
Wilson Duff
Colin Browne

Basket Six
Issei Zen

Paul E Nelson
Barbara Johns
Mike Dillon
Sharon Hashimoto

Basket 7
Storm Clouds

Briony Penn
Carletta Carrington Wilson
Robert Lashley
Rob Lewis
Maiah Merino
Meredith Quartermain
Barry McKinnon
Sharon Thesen
Joanne Arnott
Susan Kay Anderson
Diana Elser
CAConrad
Zoe Landale
Ann Graham Walker
Lorna Dee Cervantes

Contributing
Artists

Rick Bartow
Cate Gable
Joan Giannecchini
Ramon Kubicek
Elaine Parks
Dennis Parks
Susan Point
Richard Wagener
Nathan Wirth