A book to honor Sam Hamill will be launched at the Cascadia Poetry Festival in Anacortes, May 9-12, 2019. Ian Boyden christened it the Samthology and an IndieGoGo campaign has begun to raise the funds to produce the book and support the festival.
You can contribute directly by sending funds to SPLAB via PayPal:
Huge thanks to Kim Miller, Martín Espada, Greg Bem and Alexis Bernaut for their early support. We are getting direct contributions and have raised $2,183 via direct Paypal contributions, which allows us to cut out the IndieGoGo platform’s percentage.
The book will feature contributions from:
Alexis Bernaut,
Ian Boyden,
Lyn Coffin,
Michael Daley,
Martín Espada,
Cate Gable,
Kim Goldberg,
Kent Johnson, José Kozer,
Paul E Nelson,
William O’Daly,
Thomas H. Pruiksma,
Raul Sanchez,
Heidi Seaborn, Rebecca Seiferle and Karma Tenzing Wangchuk including poems in Spanish and French. In addition to helping bring this book into the world, honoring Sam Hamill and helping fund the festival, there are a few cool premiums to be had, including copies of Sam’s Destination Zero, his CD Blue Moves and original artwork. Please consider. contributing.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/samtholology-cpf-anacortes-tribute-to-sam-hamill/x/342878#/
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.
