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Cascadia Poetry Festival Affordable Workshops
Four fantastic workshops (only $60 each!) will be happening at Vancouver Island University where many of the main events for the festival are being held. You do not need a festival gold pass to sign up for a workshop, but you will probably want a pass for all the readings, performances, panels and after party events (only $25.00 for the Gold Pass. Workshops are priced separately.)
As Brenda Hillman points out, “In Berkeley that’s the cost of a side order of toast!”
Workshop #1: Nelson/Maestas
http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/workshop-1-with-paul-nelson-nadine-maestas
Thursday, April 30, 9:30 – 12:30pm
Workshop #2: Tolbert/Peters
http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/spoken-wordpoetry-workshop-2-with-missie-peters-anastacia-tolbert
Friday, May 1, 1:00 – 4:00pm
Workshop #3: Lennée Reid
http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/workshop-3-with-lennee-reid
Saturday, May 2, 2:00 – 5:00pm
Workshop #4: Hillman/McKinnon/Stanley
http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/workshop-4-with-barry-mckinnon-brenda-hillman-george-stanley
Saturday, May 2, 2:00 – 5:00pm
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.
