Some workshop slots are available to Gold Pass holders for the 5th Cascadia Poetry Festival in
Patricia Smith
Tacoma, October 12-15, 2017. See the schedule here, including poets Michael McClure, Patricia Smith, Ianthe Brautigan, Bruce Weigl, Tod Marshall, Sharon Thesen, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Philip Red Eagle, Abby Murray and others.
Saturday, 12:30pm-2:30pm Workshop 1 – Patricia Smith: Writing on the Other Side of the Wall. DETAILS.
Sunday:
Tod Marshall Photo by Amy Sinisterra
9am-11am Workshop 2 – Tod Marshall: Finding Cascadia in Poetry. DETAILS
11:15am – 1:15pm Workshop 3 – Tacoma Writers Resist. DETAILS
11:15am – 1:15pm Workshop 4 – CAConrad: KARMA HARVEST: A (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop. DETAILS
11:15am – 1:15pm Workshop 5 – Ianthe Brautigan Memoir Workshop. DETAILS.
Register for the fest with a Gold Pass here and then pick a workshop or two from these master poets.
Ianthe Brautigan Swensen
CAConrad
Laura Krughoff
Renee Simms
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.
