Gold Pass (Map: David McCloskey © 2010, Cascadia Institute )
The Cascadia Poetry Festival seeks to examine the culture of this region (see map) by gathering poets from the California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, the Alaska panhandle and Western Montana at SPLAB, in the most diverse zip code in the U.S., to learn, share ideas and techniques, begin to discover the qualities of this bioregion and the possibilities for deeper connection between the inhabitants from all parts of the region. (See Jan 2, 2012 CASCADIA_Press_Release). All access Gold Pass $50.
There are five passes available first-come, first-served tomorrow morning after 8A at SPLAB. Online registration is now closed. Kim Goldberg fest photos here.
Renowned and emerging poets from the region will present talks on Cascadian culture and illustrate how that is presented in the best poetry of the region. Workshops will allow participants to hone their skills in the manner of the best poetry of the region and be inspired by others. Readings by faculty and other invited poets, as well as an open mic will allow for a continuation of the dialog. Morning discussions will extend the opportunities for deeper understanding of the subjects raised and personal one-on-one sessions will afford participants an opportunity to see how to deepen their own gesture.
The Cascadia Poetry Festival March 24-25, 2012, is being presented by SPLAB, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization in Seattle in partnership with the Pacific Rim Review of Books, based in Victoria, BC, the Seward Park Environmental and Audubon Center in Seattle, The Raven Chronicles, Poets & Writers, Poetry Northwest, Menacing Hedge, the Elysian Brewpub and Humanities Washington.
For more information, please contact Paul Nelson at 206.422.5002 or at pen@splab.org
Friday, March 23 @ Vermillion, 1508 11th Avenue, Puget SOUND Poetry, curated by Nico Vassilakis.
Saturday March 24 Schedule: (scroll down for faculty bios and workshop descriptions)
9a-11a: Faculty-led discussion on Cascadia, open to Gold Pass holders only
12p-4p: Panel, nature walk and writing prompt: Igniting the Green Fuse: Women on Eco-Poetry moderated by Kim Goldberg and featuring Catherine Owen, Kate Braid & Heidi Greco. Held at Seward Park Environmental and Audubon Center
1p-3p: Workshop with Tim McNulty, Images as Windows
4:30p-6:30p: Workshop with Dan Raphael, Reading in the Rain
7:30p: Keynote Talk and Reading with Dan Raphael, Tim McNulty, Judith Roche, Trevor Carolan & Maleea Acker.
9:30P: Great Beer and Poetry: The Cascadia After Party, hosted by Brian McGuigan and Greg Bem and sponsored by The Elysian Brewing Company, with readings by various Cascadians. For additional information, click here.
Sunday March 25 Schedule:
9a-11a: Faculty-led discussion on Cascadia, open to Gold Pass holders only. This event made possible by Poets & Writers.
1p -3p: Workshop with Judith Roche, The Power of Place CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. A SPLAB Living Room will take place, with poets encouraged to read one of their own poems in a circle format.
4p-5p: Reading featuring poets from the anthology, Introducing A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology featuring Washington’s Poet Laureate, Kathleen Flenniken.
6:30 Sunday closing reading with Sam Hamill & Richard Olafson. Sam speaks on what John Haines called “A Place of Sense.” “Or, more loosely, Cascadiana poesía.”
8P (or about 30 minutes after the closing reading) Open Mic hosted by Alex Bleecker.
FEES:
All-Access Gold Pass: $50, entry to all events
Individual Workshops: $20 (The Roche workshop now FREE thanks to the State Commission on Humanities). (The eco-poetry workshop FREE thanks to the Aububon Center).
Readings: $5 Suggested Donation
Go to Contact/Directions link to register and pay online, or contact SPLAB at 206-422-5002.
Faculty/Workshops/Panels:
Sam Hamill
Sam Hamill is the author of more than forty books, including fifteen volumes of original poetry (most recently Measured by Stone and Almost Paradise: New & Selected Poems & Translations); four collections of literary essays, including A Poet’s Work and Avocations: On Poetry & Poets; and some of the most distinguished translations of ancient Chinese and Japanese classics of the last half-century. He co-founded, and for thirty-two years was editor at, Copper Canyon Press. He taught in prisons for fourteen years and has worked extensively with battered women and children. An outspoken political pacifist, in 2003, declining an invitation to the White House, he founded Poets Against War, compiling the largest single-theme poetry anthology in history, 30,000 poems by 26,000 poets. His work has been translated into a dozen languages. He lives in Anacortes, Washington.
Kathleen Flenniken
Washington Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken
Flenniken was raised in Richland, Wash., and currently lives in Seattle. She holds engineering degrees from Washington State University and the University of Washington, as well as a Masters in Fine Arts degree from Pacific Lutheran University. She is president of Floating Bridge Press, a nonprofit organization dedicated to publishing Washington poets, and teaches poetry writing to students of all ages with the support of arts organizations including WSAC, Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools program and Jack Straw Productions.
Flenniken’s first book, Famous
Trevor Carolan
Trevor Carolan began writing at 17, filing dispatches from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene for The Columbian. Widely traveled, he has published books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, anthologies, and a broad range of nonfiction articles and interviews. He served as literary coordinator for the XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary; and has been Coordinator of writing programs at the Banff Arts Centre. Active in Pacific coast watershed issues, he earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Bond in Australia and lives in North Vancouver where he served as an elected municipal councilor. He teaches English and Creative Writing at University of the Fraser Valley near Vancouver, and is International Editor of the Pacific Rim Review of Books.
His current work The Lotus Singers: Short Stories from Contemporary South Asia and a companion volume Another Kind of Paradise: Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific are published by Cheng & Tsui, Boston. Other works include Against The Shore: The Best of Pacific Rim Review of Books, co-edited with Richard Olafson; an autobiographical novel The Pillow Book of Dr. Jazz (Ekstasis); Giving Up Poetry: With Allen Ginsberg At Hollyhock (Banff Centre Press); and Celtic Highway: Poems & Texts (Ekstasis). His Return to Stillness: Twenty Years With a Tai Chi Master (Marlowe), is a frequently cited work in Taoist studies.
Judith Roche
Judith Roche is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Wisdom of the Body. Black Heron Press. and editor of First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim, both have been American Book Award recipients. She was Distinguished Northwest Writer at Seattle University 2007, Literary Director Emeritus for One Reel, and a Fellow in the Black Earth Institute. She has taught extensively in adult and juvenile prisons, and taught poetry workshops throughout the country.
Tim McNulty
Tim McNulty
Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist, and nature writer. He is the author of two collections of poetry, In Blue Mountain Dusk (Pleasure Boat Studio) and Pawtracks (Copper Canyon Press), and ten chapbooks, including Some Ducks and Through High Still Air (both from Pleasure Boat Studio), Cloud Studies (Empty Bowl), Last Year’s Poverty (Brooding Heron Press), and Reflected Light (Tangram Press).
His award-winning books on nature include: The Art of Nature, Olympic National Park: A Natural History, Washington’s Wild Rivers, Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park, Grand Teton: Where Lightning Walks, and Grand Canyon: Window on the River of Time. Tim has received the Washington Governor’s Writers Award and the National Outdoor Book Award. He lives with his family in the foothills of Washington’s Olympic Mountains.
Tim McNulty Workshop Description: Images as Windows (Saturday, March 24, 1-3P at SPLAB)
In our workshop we’ll explore the power of images to convey meaning, nuance and mood in our poems. We’re review some poemes that rely on images, and we’ll jot some images in our notebooks recollected from the past few days. If time permits, we may venture outdoors to gather a few fresh notes from the neighborhood. Then we’ll try an exercise or two that will coax our rough notes into a poem. If everyone is willing, we’ll share some of our works-in-progress. No preparation is necessary, but a pen and notebook are handy – and a willingness to open ourselves to the world outside ourselves.
Maleea Acker
Maleea Acker is a poet and environmental journalist. Her first book of poems, The Reflecting Pool, appeared with Pedlar Press (Toronto) in Fall 2009. Her first non-fiction book, on the Oregon White oak ecosystem, will appear with New Star Press (Vancouver) in 2012. Maleea has attended arts residencies at Blue Mountain Center (New York), Valparaiso, Centre d’art i Natura (Spain), The Banff Centre (Canada and Mexico), The Spring Creek Project (Oregon) and St. Peter’s College. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of Victoria and teaches at Camosun College, on Vancouver Island.
Richard Olafson
Richard Olafson is an editor, poet, book designer and publisher. A long-time Victoria resident, he is active in many community organizations. Richard has published a number of books and chapbooks, among them Blood of the Moon, Cloud on My Tongue, and There Are Some Men So Unlucky They Do Not Even Have Bodies. He attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in its second year of operation and was much influenced the following year by taking classes from Warren Tallman at UBC’s English Department. He lives in Victoria with his family and is publisher of Pacific Rim Review of Books.
dan raphael
dan raphael has been active on the Portland poetry scene for over 3 decades as poet, performer, editor and reading arranger (including a monthly series that ran 13 years downtown.) The State I’m In is his 18th & newest book, while last September’s Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems, includes work from his first 13 collections. Children of the Blue Supermarket, a CD of performances with jazz saxophonist Rich Halley and drummer Carson Halley, was released in February. Current poems appear in Rattapallax, Otoliths, Raft, Heavy Bear and Caliban. He has performed at places like Bumbershoot, Wordstock, Powell’s Books, Red Sky Poetry Theatre, Eastern Oregon U and the Portland Jazz Festival.
Dan Raphael Workshop:
Reading in the Rain will help make you more aware of how to perform your work, and provide some tools, tricks and perspectives. Not that there’s a Cascadian style of poetry performance, but if there was it would have elements of story-telling, using your outside voice, gliding through hecklers and working in a variety of environments. Poets tend to be the quiet observer, but the words you write will show you how to say them. Bring another poet’s poem you like, and a couple of your own; be ready to move around a little.
“Igniting the Green Fuse: Women on Eco-poetry” panel moderated by Kim Goldberg (Nanaimo, BC)
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), Kate Braid & Heidi Greco (White Rock, BC) at Seward Park Environmental and Audubon Center.
Kim Goldberg
Kim Goldberg is an award-winning poet, investigative journalist and author. Author of Ride Backwards on Dragon, she has studied T’ai Chi Chuan and the related martial art of Liuhebafa since 1997. Her Red Zone collection of poems about urban homelessness has been taught at Vancouver Island University and elsewhere. As a journalist, Kim has reported extensively on environmental topics, winning the Goodwin’s Award for her coverage of the anti-environmental backlash in Canada. Born and raised in Oregon, with a biology degree from University of Oregon, Kim moved to Canada with her family during the Vietnam War years. She has remained on Vancouver Island ever since where she is active in anti-war efforts, homelessness issues and urban art. She offers a popular series of workshops called Pen & Dragon: Kung Fu for Writers combining martial arts movements with creative writing exercises to awaken the body and unleash the mind. Visit her online: www.pigsquashpress.com
Catherine Owen is a Vancouver writer, the author of nine collections of poetry and one of environmental and poetic essays and
Catherine Owen
memoirs. Her book, Frenzy (Anvil Press 2009) won the Alberta Literary prize and her poems have been nominated for the CBC Award, the BC Book Prize, the Earle Birney award and the Fiddlehead contest. She has a Masters in English, works as an editor/tutor, plays bass in metal bands and will be narrator of the upcoming production Awakening the Green Man, an eco-musical.
Heidi Greco
Heidi Greco lives in South Surrey, about a mile from the invisible line that divides Canada from the U.S. She is a long-time environmentalist and has written about her beliefs and concerns in essays, blog posts, and poems. Her poetry collection, Rattlesnake Plantain (Anvil Press, Vancouver), takes its title from a forest orchid which is considered rare in some places, but that still exists in her bioregion. Other books are Siren Tattoo, Shrinking Violets, and several chapbooks. Greco is a regular visitor to Matsqui Penitentiary, where she is part of a writers’ group that does workshopping sessions with inmates. She keeps a sporadic blog at www.outonthebiglimb.blogspot.com.
Kate Braid
Kate Braid has muddled about in the intersection between loving trees and being responsible for cutting down whole forests full – as a carpenter and builder – for years. She has written poetry and non-fiction about subjects from Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Glenn Gould, to mine workers and fishers. In addition to co-editing with Sandy Shreve, In Fine Form, she has published five books of poetry. Her memoir of fifteen years as a carpenter, Journey Woman, is forthcoming in 2012. Her work has won and been short-listed for a number of awards and is widely anthologized. See www.katebraid.com
Katharine Whitcomb
Katharine Whitcomb is the author of a collection of poems, Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, which was chosen by Lucia Perillo as the winner of the 2000 Bluestem Award and published by Bluestem Press, and two poetry chapbooks. Hosannas (Parallel Press, 1999) and Lamp of Letters (Floating Bridge Press, 2009), winner of the 2009 Floating Bridge Chapbook Award. Her poetry awards include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a Loft-McKnight Award, a Writing Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Halls Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Ellensburg, WA, where she is Coordinator of the Writing Specialization English Major at Central Washington University. Find out more on her website: www.katharinewhitcomb.com.
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! The project features, via Google Earth, poems by Washington poets ABOUT a particular location in the state. A visitor can call up a Google Earth map of Washington and see a map with pins indicating the locations of poems all over the state. Each pin can be zoomed in on and opened to a photograph and a full text, attributed poem with information about the poet.
Paul Falardeau
Paul Falardeau’s Current project, an honours thesis under the supervision of Dr. Trevor Carolan, is a multi-dimensional exploration of the still unclassified group of Pacific Northwest eco writers he has called the “Turtle Island Poets.” The paper considers the unique blending of ecological studies, poetics and spiritual practice into a new poetics of place that includes the work of Gary Snyder, Robert Bringhurst, Red Pine, Robert Sund, Bill Yake, Tim McNulty, Mike O’Connor, Andrew Schelling, John Schreiber, Jim Dodge and his mentor, Trevor Carolan amongst several others. He’s an emerging poet, essayist and journalist. A recent graduate of the University of the Fraser Valley, he holds a Baccalaureate in English Literature. While at UFV, Paul was the Arts editor of The Cascade, a CIVL radio DJ, and president of Students for Sustainability. He has also worked with the Reach Gallery Museum and Mission World Community Film Festival. A regular contributor to the Pacific Rim Review of Books, his latest work, “The Great Story of British Columbia: Robert Bringhurst and Haida Oral Literature,” appears in the Anvil Press release, Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature. He lives in Aldergrove, BC near Bertram Creek within the Lower Fraser River watershed.
David McCloskey of the Cascadia Institute is a Consulting Faculty Member.
David McCloskey
David McCloskey is a long-time bioregionalist. He taught Sociology, Ecology, and Geography
at Seattle University for many years. Known as “the Father of Cascadia,” he has spoken,
organized, and written widely on Cascadia & the Bioregional Vision. He made the first maps
of “Cascadia” & “The Ecoregions of Cascadia,” and is currently working on “The Bioregions
of Western North America.”
In search of the spirit of place, he has also compiled an anthology of
Cascadian Poetry in 4 movements: “Mountains, Rivers, Sea, and Sky.”
He retired in 2004, and moved back home to Eugene to remodel
the family homestead, and run the Cascadia Institute.
To sponsor or volunteer, contact Paul Nelson at 206.422.5002 or pen@splab.org.
Menacing Hedge image by Mad Graves, used with permission
Elysian Brewing Company
We’re grateful to David McCloskey of the Cascadia Institutefor his vision, inspiration and for the donation of Cascadia Maps.
Cascadia Map courtesy of the Cascadia Institute
From Bill Yake:
Hi Paul,
The idea of examining poetry from the perspective the Cascadia bioregion is an intriguing one. I guess a couple of thoughts come to mind:
For instance, it’s my understanding that the concept of cultures (or maybe, more accurately, cultural families) growing out of the waters and soils of a bioregion seems to be rooted in the work of North American ethnologists, especially Alfred Kroeber (father of Ursula LeGuin). Something similar to current concepts of Cascadia may have first appeared in Kroeber’s book, Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America (1947) as a cultural region he calls “The Northwest Coast”: cultures ranging from the Tlingit of southern Alaska to the Yurok, Karok and Hupa of the lower Klamath River drainage of northwestern California. These cultures grew out of settings that provided similar foods (including salmon and other sources of marine fat and protein) and natural materials: mussel shell knives, a similar range of forest materials including cedar, medicines, berries.
Gary Snyder elaborated on this concept in his essay “The Place, The Region, and the Commons” in The Practice of the Wild. First he looks at the “regional outline” defined by the range of the Douglas Fir — “the definitive tree of the Pacific Northwest.” This outline, he says, has its “northern limit…around the Skeena River in British Columbia. It is found west of the [Cascade] crest through Washington, Oregon, and northern California. The southern coastal limit of Douglas Fir is about the same as that of salmon, which do not run south of the Big Sur River … [This] outline describes the boundary of a larger natural region that runs across three states and one international border.”
Later in the essay he implies that this larger “regional outline”, which he doesn’t name, might be divided into three bioregions: The Shasta bioregion to the south, the Cascadia/Columbia region north of this, and finally the Ish River country – the drainages to Puget Sound and Straits of Georgia, what we now call the Salish Sea. The latter would include home territories for this conference and some of those listed here as key participants: Seattle, Vancouver, the San Juan and Gulf Islands, the Olympic Peninsula, Anacortes, etc.
Other riffs on the concept include those by Bates McKee in his Cascadia: the Geologic Evolution of the Pacific Northwest (1972) and David McCloskey, a Seattle University bioregionalist, in an essay entitled “On Ecoregional Boundaries” (1993).
Author and lepidopterist Bob Pyle uses this definition in The Butterflies of Cascadia: “… a conservative definition of the bioregion known as Cascadia – all of Washington and Oregon, and the bordering sections of southern British Columbia, western Idaho, and northernmost California and Nevada.”
Somehow, it seems this history of thought and consideration could be profitably wound into seminar planning.
A second, related, thought is that a [the?] key concept behind bioregionalism is the value of becoming native in the place one lives. That can mean different things to different folks, but it seems that it certainly ought to include the cultural perspective of Cascadia native people.
I just came across this relevant and astute passage from Robert Bringhurst – a great Canadian thinker, poet, and student of native literature (especially that of the Haida).
“Accepting and absorbing native North American [art and literature] means refocusing our sense of history, letting go of the view that ‘we are all immigrants here” and moving towards a condition in which all of us are natives. It means erasing the false boundary between “native art” and “high art.” It means pooling the contents of art museums and ethnographic collections, then shaking down the result on the basis of quality instead of cultural origin… [T]hese are good and healthy principles, every bit as applicable in the literary realm as in the domain of visual art.”
This perspective was based on Bringhurst’s in depth discussions with his friend, the preeminent Haida sculptor, Bill Reid.
The inclusion of the perspective of native literature – especially the works of classic myth tellers – might well be essential to a meaningful discussion of Cascadian poetics.
All the best to all involved,
Bill
Another note from Bill Yake:
Paul,
Finally chased down a lead that might be useful for the conference. Especially as a means of beginning the process of becoming aware, and thus more native to this place. Also as a prompt for poetry and other writing. It’s a series of questions, the first version of which was apparently were initially published in The Whole Earth Catalogue (http://connectedbynature.com/2010/01/happy-2010-where-you-at-a-bioregional-quiz/) :
30 questions to elevate your awareness (and literacy) of the greater place in which you live:
1) Point north.
2) What time is sunset today?
3) Trace the water you drink from rainfall to your tap.
4) When you flush, where do the solids go? What happens to the waste water?
5) How many feet above sea level are you?
6) What spring wildflower is consistently among the first to bloom here?
7) How far do you have to travel before you reach a different watershed? Can you draw the boundaries of yours?
8 ) Is the soil under your feet, more clay, sand, rock or silt?
9) Before your tribe lived here, what did the previous inhabitants eat and how did they sustain themselves?
10) Name five native edible plants in your neighborhood and the season(s) they are available.
11) From what direction do storms generally come?
12) Where does your garbage go?
13) How many people live in your watershed?
14) Who uses the paper/plastic you recycle from your neighborhood?
15) Point to where the sun sets on the equinox. How about sunrise on the summer solstice?
16) Where is the nearest earthquake fault? When did it last move?
17) Right here, how deep do you have to drill before you reach water?
18) Which (if any) geological features in your watershed are, or were, especially respected by your community, or considered sacred, now or in the past?
19) How many days is the growing season here (from frost to frost)?
20) Name five birds that live here. Which are migratory and which stay put?
21) What was the total rainfall here last year?
22) Where does the pollution in your air come from?
23) If you live near the ocean, when is high tide today?
24) What primary geological processes or events shaped the land here?
25) Name three wild species that were not found here 500 years ago. Name one exotic species that has appeared in the last 5 years.
26) What minerals are found in the ground here that are (or were) economically valuable?
27) Where does your electric power come from and how is it generated?
28) After the rain runs off your roof, where does it go?
29) Where is the nearest wilderness? When was the last time a fire burned through it?
30) How many days till the moon is full?
The Bigger Here Bonus Questions:
31) What species once found here are known to have gone extinct?
32) What other cities or landscape features on the planet share your latitude?
33) What was the dominant land cover plant here 10,000 years ago?
34) Name two places on different continents that have similar sunshine/rainfall/wind and temperature patterns to here.
Bill
Paul:
What are some Cascadian Poems?
Well, let’s see: you know, of course, Lew Welch’s “Shasta” & “Ring of Bone,” don’t you?
Then, among many others, there’s Sam Hamill’s exquisitely evocative perfectly pitched quiet poem, “On Orca Sound”–you know & love that one, right?
There are thousands of poems which can be clustered under many possible thematic headings, including some beautiful “Love,” “Leavings,” “Work,” poems, but really the topics and modes of presentation are endless.
Within the genre of so-called Nature poems, and within the orbit solely of poems which sing Rivers, for instance, you know, of course:
Mary Barnard’s “The Rapids,”
David Wagoner’s “Three Ways of a River,”
Ray Carver’s “Where Water Comes Together with Other Water,”
Wagoner’s “Trying to Sing in the Rain,”
Gary Snyder, “We Wash Our Bowls in the River,”
Wm Stafford’s “At the Metolius River,”
Harald Wyndam’s ” Entering the Water,”
Lawson Inada’s “Headwaters,”
Pat Lowther’s “Cataract,”
Jarold Ramsey’s, ” Desire at Craig Lake,”
Patricia Goedicke, “The Lake Itself,”
Tim McNulty, “Ka’houk,” to mention only a few;
of course, there are many other wonderful ones:
Hugo’s river poems, ones by Roger Dunsmore, Charles Lillard,
Patrick Lane, George Woodcock, Greg Keeler, Tom Pier’s fine fishing poems,
Sandra Alcosser, so many more by Ray Carver, Tom Wayman, Sherman Alexie, Mike O’Connor,
Tom Jay, Tim Bowling, Zoe Landale, Neile Graham, Joan Swift, Christiane Balk, Robert Sund, Theresa Kishkan, and many, many others….
Yours, David McCloskey
Cascadia Institute
I’m from the south of England and have always had a thing about the Pacific northwest, so much so that I left the UK five years ago and now live in Whitehorse, Yukon. I imagine drawing the Pacific northwest region on a sheet of tracing paper and placing it over Cascadia. It doesn’t fit but the overlap is intriguing, which is why I’m planning to attend the festival in March.
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Hello Paul,
I’d like to participate in the Cascadia Poetry Festival, perhaps as a dialogue facilitator/poet. I feel as though I stand with my college students on a high diving board, filled with our questions about the future of this place, the larger region, its connections to the larger world. Can we meet?
Denise
Denise,
I’d love to meet. We need signups more than anything else. Call: 206.422.5002
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What a fantastic event! If I had the $, I would consider attending.
The question I have: It is apparently assumed that there IS
a unique culture for the Cascadia Region that WILL show up in poetry and other writings… (rather than a west coast cultures, or ” we are the 99% cultures” and, or something else might show.).
I would start the exploration and examination (explication?) with the assuming question – I would also look for the kinds of social issues that are predominating, as well as absent from people’s writing now.
I hope someone will report-out about the findings of the conference? Appreciate that it is taking place in any instance.
L.E. author of the highly indie book, “Mural Poems: Human Rights and Antiwar Poetry” (2007), Plateau Sigma Press, Seattle. Available in a few libraries [finally]… .
Larry,
For my take on Cascadia Poetry Culture, see http://paulenelson.com/2012/03/13/cascadia-poetry-interview/
We do need volunteers. Would you be interested in helping with a couple of shifts at the door? Please let me know.
Thanks for your kind words about the fest.
Paul
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I would certainly value helping/volunteering at the Festival – I will follow up about doing so. Appreciated. Larry.
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