The effort to get the word out about Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia begins in Portland, with a reading organized...
Make It True Readings (dan raphael interview)
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ATJ 65-68
I love this notion of pre-bedtime suggestions. I have been doing that the last few months, or more based on the latest...
50 Days til Postcards
I am starting to get emails about the August Poetry Postcard Fest. Questions like: 1) Is the fest on this year? (Yes)....
Wildcrafting Seward Park
You think of the term "gardener" and something mild is evoked, perhaps an older person, but use the term "wildcrafter"...
Cascadia Dialog
The discussion I'd hoped for after the first and second Cascadia Poetry Festivals, is beginning to manifest in the...
Cascadia Poetry Festival 3 – Nanaimo
Sometimes there are events in my life that are so intense, or have so much action packed into a short time, it takes...
After The Japanese 61-64
My sister Barb once gave me a T-shirt designed to help me remember my roots, my hometown and the pride in which those...
Clyfford Still: Colville & Beyond
On Sunday, April 19, 2015, I interviewed Patricia Failing, Professor Emerita of the University of Washington about an...
Hillman City Haibun (Tobacco & Other Vegetables)
Maybe it's my Virgo nature that allows me to enjoy vicariously the lives of people whose work I admire but whose...
Jeremy Pataky at U Books
It takes a special (or odd) person to live in Alaska, especially by choice and not by birth. The long winter nights...
ATJ 57-60 Language & Lilacs
It is logical that it would be a matter of time before Ella would adopt some of my better habits. All too often we're...
Make It True (Poetry From Cascadia)
It is still kind of hard to believe that the second of the Cascadia poetry projects I envisioned a couple of years ago...