Cascadia Poetry Festival 2021 Registration Open

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Splabman

The 7th Cascadia Poetry Festival is postponed. The iteration planned for April 30-May 2, 2021 at the Multiverse on San Juan Island was cancelled due to Covid-19.

The main page for the 2021 fest was: http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/cpf-sji-2021/ 85 year old Beat Nun Mary Norbert Körte from Willets, CA (extreme Southern Cascadia) is part of The Practice of Cascadia/The Practice of a Life panel and Miriam Nichols, Sharon Thesen and Daphne Marlatt are part of the panel looking at the life and legacy of Robin Blaser.

There will be many breakout sessions connected to both topics and one dedicated to the Island Marble Butterfly by Bill Yake:

The Island Marble Butterfly – A Cascadian Endemic and Inspiration (handouts)

Believed to be extinct until rediscovered at American Camp on San Juan Island in 1998, the Island Marble Butterfly is a true endemic – limited (as far as is known) to San Juan and Lopez Islands. One of the last colonies persists on National Park Service (NPS) land just a couple of miles from the Multiverse – site of the 2020 Cascadia Poetry Festival. Like us, its future is precarious. In this breakout session we plan to visit American Camp where NPS staff will show us how they are working to grow this the Island Marble colony by hand-raising butterflies from eggs, preserving their food plants, and improving their considerably abused habitat. It is not an easy task. We should also have some time to consider the role of butterflies and moths (ephemeral, evasive, and often pale) as they have inspired a range of poems and poets — including examples from Vladimir Nabokov, Robin Blaser, Jim Morrison, and several poets native to Cascadia. Participants should bring a notebook (Rite-in-the-Rain might be best given weather uncertainty), a pen/pencil, outdoor clothing and sturdy shoes. Binoculars and a camera might also be helpful. Facilitated by Bill Yake

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CPF-Anacortes Workshops

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Splabman

The early bird gets the worm and the first 45 to register for a Cascadia Poetry Festival Gold Pass gets a free workshop the Sunday morning of the fest. Two SPLAB volunteers have teamed up for an original Cascadia experience and other workshops are being facilitated by Steve Kuusisto and Tim McNulty with Bob Rose. The whole festival schedule is available by clicking on this image:

Sunday – 9am – 12N workshops:

Workshop 1, 9am Sunday: Stephen Kuusisto, author of Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poets Journey will guide poets and prose writers on the techniques that help us write with clarity and honesty about animals. The aim is to avoid anthropomorphism and instead find ways to write with the real animal in mind. Cost $50. Limit 20 participants.

Workshop 2, 9-12N Sunday: Writing in the Woods. Tim McNulty and Bob Rose. Cost FREE to Gold Pass holders who are registered in advance. Limit 15 participants.

Workshop 3, 9-12N Sunday: Becoming Cascadian: Imagination of the Senses. Nadine Maestas and Jared Leising host a workshop on the Washington State Ferry. This two-hour generative workshop will engage your imagination through a sensory experience of Cascadia while riding the ferry to Friday Harbor and back. Participants will meet at the Anacortes terminal and purchase a ferry ticket. The workshop is open to the first 30 Gold Pass Members who register at Brown Paper Tickets.

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Gold Passes for Cascadia Poetry Festival Anacortes 2019

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Splabman

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.

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SPLAB at Off-Site AWP NW Micropress Fair

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Splabman

SPLAB is delighted to be at AWP in Portland and not have to attend it! From the Entre Rios Books Facebook event:

Meet the many of the smallest, newest, and best literary presses, magazines, and producers in the Northwest. This one-day AWP-offsite event showcases the many presses that don’t have the staff or means to be at the longer AWP three-day book fair.

The Cleaners is conveniently located a block from Powell’s Books, Inc., in the Ace Hotel Portland. You could have the most EPIC day of book buying: AWP, which will be open to the public on Saturday, Powell’s, our press fair, and the NoFair/Fair event as well. https://nofairfair.com. BUY BOOKS!

Presses and producers include: Entre Ríos Books, Scablands Books, Chin Music Press, Page Boy Magazine, Sage Hill Press, SPLAB, Short Run Seattle, Blue Cactus Press, Frontera Magazine, Margin Shift Reading Series, Cadence Video Poetry Festival / Northwest Film Forum, Till Writers, Ravenna Press, StringTown Press, The Bear Deluxe/Orlo, Papeachu Press, Rhododo Press, Coast | No Coast, Winter Texts, Crab Creek Review, Poetic Games, Not a Pipe Publishing, Cascadia Rising Review, The Conium Review, Arq Press, and Floating Bridge Press.

SPLAB Founder Paul E Nelson reads at the After Party. We hope to see you. Stop by our table and buy a copy of American Prophets or Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia among other books.

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