The 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival is three weeks away in Nanaimo, BC, and unlike the first two, it is in Canada and it...
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Pig War Camp Walk San Juan Island
I have been invited by Mike Vouri to talk about the Pig War and my manuscript, Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia,...
Hillman City Haibun (Early Lilacs)
3.29.15 - John Olson’s right about early lilacs - March is the new April. Facebook, being what it is, is a source of...
First Quarter 2015 American Sentences
I started to harvest my American Sentences after filling up my latest pocket journal and by the time I finished that...
After The Japanese 49-52
The last three of the poems in this series written in Marblemount, WA, seem so distant given the contrast between last...
Seattle (City of No Lit Crit)
If you are involved at all in the Seattle writing community, you have no doubt heard by now about the op-ed former...
Winter of No Winter & Seattle’s Water (Hillman City Haibun 10)
It's over now, but Winter 2014/2015 in Seattle was not much of a winter. Many people around here were planting their...
Audio from King’s Books 3.13.15
I am grateful to Connie Walle for inviting me to be a featured reader at the Distinguished Writer's Series in Tacoma....
After The Japanese 45-48
The latest in this series of poems written in 2014 and archived here cover ground from Lorine Niedecker, to Michael...
Margin Shift Reading Series
It has been described by one Seattle writer as a reading series that leans toward: "the academic, conceptual and...
Hillman City Haibun 9 Anagrams
It was probably in 1995 or '96 that Danika Dinsmore made me aware of a form of poetry called Present Beau, a kind of...
After the Japanese 41-44
This series of poems, posted four at a time and archived here, continues with some written on a short retreat in...