Cascadian Zen

The Cascadian Zen anthology project will bring together nonfiction, poetry, and translations that explore expressions of Zen within the Cascadian bioregion. Background: EcoRegions of Cascadia, adapted from the map that originally appears as a special inset on “The Ish River-Lillooet Country with The Salish Sea Map-Atlas,” Copyright © 2022 David McCloskey, Cascadia Institute; available from Cascadia-institute.org; used with permission.

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Who We Are

Watershed Press was founded by Paul E. Nelson, Jason Tetsuzen Wirth, and Adelia MacWilliam in 2023 to support their first publication, Cascadian Zen, Volume One and Two, a carefully curated collection of poetry, essays, interviews, art, and photography from the bioregion of Cascadia. Our mandate is to foster compelling work by a wide range of voices allied deeply with place and sustainable and Indigenous approaches to navigating the ecological and political harm of the Anthropocene in the bioregion of Cascadia. 

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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?

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