Cascadia Poetry Festival Schedule

Sam Hamill

Tentative Schedule: Saturday, March 24, 2012
Night
Keynote Talk/Reading, selected faculty on Cascadian Culture, 15-30 minutes
each and discussion. 7:30-10P, SPLAB. Sam Hamill, Judith Roche, Trevor Carolan, Tim McNulty, others TBA.

Saturday and Sunday:
Morning faculty-led discussion, 9-11A, SPLAB.

Simultaneous afternoon workshops and panels, SPLAB and venues TBA.
12-4P Saturday panel, nature walk and writing prompt: Igniting the Green Fuse: Women on Eco-poetry moderated by Kim Goldberg (Nanaimo, BC) featuring: Catherine Owen (Vancouver, BC), Heidi Greco (White Rock, BC) & Carolyne Wright (Seattle, WA) at Seward Park Environmental and Audubon Center.

1-3 Saturday workshop: Tim McNulty  (Sequim, WA) Images as Windows, SPLAB.

4:30-6:30 Saturday workshop: Reading in the Rain (a performance workshop facilitated by Dan Raphael (Portland, OR) at SPLAB.)

7:30P Saturday Keynote reading: Sam Hamill, Judith Roche, Trevor Carolan, Tim McNulty, others TBA.

1 -3 Sunday workshop: Judith Roche (Seattle, WA) The Power of Place, SPLAB.

4P Sunday Reading: Introducing A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology edited by Katharine Whitcomb, Robert Hickey, and Marco Thompson, The Center for Geospatial Poetry at Central Washington University! Kathryn Hunt, Terry Martin, Kevin Miller, Paul Fisher, Alice Derry and Anne Teplick are among the confirmed readers.

Sunday night and Monday brunch, goodbyes 11A-1P.

Sponsors: Seward Park Environmental and Audubon Center, State Commission on Humanities.

 

 

About Splabman

Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
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