Our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast interview is now up. Lorin Medley is a poet from Comox, B.C. Her first chapbook is On The Way to Kluusms, published by Watershed Press. Lorin Medley’s poetry is deeply connected to place, rich with imagery, local history, personal mythology and employs an organic syntax which derives not from conventional grammar, but from the needs of each poem. To borrow a phrase from the Jazz magazine Downbeat, Lorin is a poet “deserving wider recognition.”

Here is audio for the launch of the book on August 22, 2025, at ArtFul Gallery in Courtenay, BC:

Here is my introduction to the occasion:

On the Way to Kluusms is the first poetry chapbook to be published by Watershed Press, a bioregional press based in Seattle, but with strong connections to Vancouver Island. The author is Lorin Medley, whose poetry has been published in anthologies like Winter in America (Again, Cascadian Zen Volume II and Drift: Poems and Poets from the Comox Valley. Lorin lives, gardens and writes from her home in Comox, British Columbia, the unceded territory of the K’ómoks First Nation and is our guest today to talk about On the Way to Kluusms, what it means to live in place and how we disconnect from ourselves.