Gold Passes for Cascadia Poetry Festival Anacortes 2019 are now available through Brown Paper Tickets. See: https://cpfanacortes.brownpapertickets.com/
See the 2019 schedule here: http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/cpf-anacortes-2019/
In addition to a tribute to Sam Hamill, in the town where he lived the last 8 years of his life, there will be the launch of two anthologies, (one of them bilingual) panels on Cascadian Zen and Translation as a Political Act, workshops at no additional charge for the first 45 Gold Pass purchasers and an open reading Friday and Saturday called Living Room.
This may be the last festival for a while, pending funding. Please consider purchasing now and sharing this post with your network and join us in celebrating the life of one of the most remarkable poets to ever call Cascadia home. Thank you to our sponsors, including ArtsWA, Humanities Washington, The City of Anacortes, Copper Canyon Press, Kim Miller, Marius Hibbard, the Fidalgo Culture Foundation and How it Works.
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.
