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
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
Brenda Hillman
Claudia Castro Luna
Stephen Collis
Sam Hamill
Michael Daley
Cascadian Zen Anthology
Daphne Marlatt
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