Cascadia BioFi is happening Saturday May 17, and the Cascadia Poetics Lab will be presenting poetry with no admission charge at 7pm. The conference: “will bring together leaders at the edges of finance, circular economy, land regeneration, indigenous rematriation, community art, technology, and participatory governance to co-create pathways for bioregional funding ecosystems within the Cascadia bioregion that see people supported to do this work. (Conference website.)

I’ll be presenting work, along with Jason Wirth, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Claudia Castro Luna, Robert Lashley and Matt Trease. The poetry is to start at 7pm.

Brandon Letsinger has been putting an enormous amount of energy into the notion of Cascadia for 20 years and has assembled a stellar cast for this rather remarkable event. While most of the continent focuses on the latest spectacle coming out of D.C. (& almost every action deserves scrutiny or creative resistance, or a response) many of us are focusing on building alternatives to the many unjust systems that are unraveling at this time. This conference promises to have, if not answers, at least positive directions in which to head as we navigate life at a time of poly-crisis. Our poets and philosopher will have something to say about our current predicament and I hope you join me Saturday at the Georgetown Steam plant, 6605 13th Ave S, in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood.