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Lorin Medley Interview

Lorin Medley Interview

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,...
We are Axolotls: Somos Ajolotes Anthology

We are Axolotls: Somos Ajolotes Anthology

I’m delighted to have work in a new bilingual anthology! From the Carbonation Press website: We are Axolotls: Somos Ajolotes is an edited collection of major US Latin@ poets, who have lived in the US, or worked in the US as part of the Chican@/Latin@...
Gallery 100 Panel Discussion The Beauty Shop

Gallery 100 Panel Discussion The Beauty Shop

I have the good fortune of being a moderator at Gallery 110 this Saturday from 4 to 6. 110 3rd Avenue S, Seattle. Saundra Fleming is one of 5 painters who are known as Beauty Shop. Their new exhibit opens today as part of the First Thursday Gallery Walk in Pioneer...
Theodore Roethke, 1st Cascadia Poet

Theodore Roethke, 1st Cascadia Poet

I had the good fortune to interview Bill Barillas on The North American Sequence of Theodore Roethke. Sam Hamill told me before he died that this sequence was the beginning of Cascadian poetry and I’ve seen nothing to counter that theory. Bill Barillas is the...