The Cascadia Poetry Festival advisory Board met on Sunday, March 31st, on a gloriously sunny Easter Sunday. Several folks could not make the meeting because of that, but 15 attended and the groups was diverse and engaged. Amalio Madueño and I essentially ran the meeting, so my notes are from memory and the occasional email [...]
If you are wondering what SPLAB has been up to lately, we’re scaling back in preparation of something quite huge. In our last season, Sept 2011 to June 2012, we produced 51 events. With the arrival of Ella Roque Nelson, that pace became impossible, so we decided to put our efforts into much fewer events [...]
Here are links to some of the photographs and summaries of the 1st Cascadia Poetry Festival:
Barbara Erwine photos: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=2a6e06a3285ad19c&Bsrc=SkyMail&Bpub=SDX.SkyDrive&sc=Photos&id=2A6E06A3285AD19C!200
Kim Goldberg’s blog post: http://pigsquash.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/cascadia-poetry-festival-photos/
Four Hoarse Men video: http://gregbem.com/wordpress/vid-4-hoarse-men-read-at-puget-sound-poetry/
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 [...]
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