Seattle U
The Common Acre
Registration continues for the Cascadia Poetry Festival Small Press Fair, May 2-4, 2014, in the Paccar Atrium of Seattle University. For $100, participating organizations (not limited to small presses) will receive: Small Press Fair table, 4 feet. 4 Gold Passes (admittance to all events.*) Mentions on the website and in the program. (pdf of all this here.) http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/contact
We’d like to thank those organizations that have committed to the Fair, including: Spring Street Center (which will also be hosting at least seven Cascadia Poetry Festival events), The Common Acre, Pageboy Magazine, Wilfrid Laurier University Press and 826 Seattle.
Spring Street Center is available for your event, weddings, graduation parties, baby showers, lodging and other functions.
PageBoy 2013
There is a limit to the number of organizations that can register for this. Details at the link about, or call Paul Nelson (206) 422.5002. Come help us celebrate the bioregion and create awareness of your authors and/or organization in the beautiful Paccar Atrium outside the 411 seat Pigott Auditorium, where the Main Stage Cascadia Poetry Festival events will happen. Our gratitude goes to Sharon Cumberland and Michelle Pelletier of Seattle U, the Spring Street Center and all the Festival sponsors.
Daphne Marlatt, Rivering
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.
