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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...

12 Stringed Mind in the Place of Sand Imbolc 2026 DaySong @ Poetry Bridge

I've been fortunate to have been offered featured readings over the last few years at Poetry Bridge, which happens at...

Ralph Towner 1940-2026

One of my greatest disappointments in life is that I never saw Ralph Towner in concert. He died today in Rome. There...

Celebration of Koon Woon

On Wednesday night at C&P Coffee Company in West Seattle, longtime Seattle poet and publisher Koon Woon was...

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Archived Posts

Tronald Dump

I know these posts can be seen as click bait, but there is something weird and particularly USAmerican about all the...

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518. Stankbeard

More Salish art in this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard and a reference to yet another plant species identified...

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517. Blue Demons

Another one of my 2014 photographs turned into postcard, this one begins the summer-long fascination with chicory....

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