Waiting in the garden on a hot day for a friend and our bike ride, I perused Facebook only to see the news that...
BC Poet Jamie Reid Dead at 74
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Interview with Eric Tingstad
For over 30 years Seattle guitarist Eric Tingstad has been recording and performing in Cascadia and around the world....
After The Japanese 73-76
The latest in this series of 100 poems with references to:...
Sharon Thesen on Re-Wilding (Re-Worlding)
In the year 2001, after the tragic events of that September, and only about five years under my belt as a...
SW Road Trip Haibun: Holiday in Quemado
The road has its own demands. Make plans, the road reserves the right to laugh. Hail. Close. Be patrolled with...
Bringhurst on Cascadia
I've re-watched the video of the panel on which Robert Bringhurst participated at the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival....
After The Japanese 69-72
The poems after more than a year now, seem so out of place when viewed from this "heat wave" point of view. (84 now as...
Joanne Kyger Reads Easter & Other Poems
Joanne Kyger Interview in Bolinas, CA, Memorial Day, 2015 One of the major women poets of the SF Renaissance, Joanne...
Amalio Madueño in Taos
The purpose of my recent (massive) road trip to the SW and back was to visit Amalio Madueño, who has lived there since...
Duwamish Revealed
Ever since Greg Bem arrived in Seattle from Philadelphia he has been a literary dynamo, presenting and participating...
Cascadia to Taos
OK, I'm back. It was 4,167 miles in Que (my Honda) to Portland, Boise (via John Day River watershed in Oregon), to...
Make It True Readings (dan raphael interview)
The effort to get the word out about Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia begins in Portland, with a reading organized...