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More 2012 American Sentences
OK, more harvesting done today and some news. Pablo Baler in his fascinating project The Next Thing: art in the 21st...
Igniting the Galaxies: Cascadian Ecopoetry
Igniting the Galaxies: Cascadian Ecopoetry (A review of Igniting the Green Fuse: Four Canadian Women Poets) (download...
Intro to Reissue of McClure’s Specks
It was on my 50th birthday that I received an email from Garry Thomas Morse of Talon Books in Vancouver asking if I...
Before Pigs
The opening poem from my current project: Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia. Text, with linebreaks fouled up by...
53. Nothing Death
53. Nothing Death A kiss is nothing in brackets. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna A poem’s nothing on paper. A stellar jay’s...
61. Meat Again
Nothing forgets us more quickly than a barstool. Ramon Gomez de la Serna the sheer terror of being forced into...
Puget SOUND Poetry
Nico Vassilakis is curating a night of Puget Sound Poetry, Friday, March 23, 2012 7-9P at Vermillion, 1508 11th Av, as...
Ella Roque Nelson, a quarter-Cuban, part-Irish St. Paddy’s Day Baby
When Meredith and I learned that the baby she was carrying was a girl, she started suggesting first names. She would...
Final Cascadia Poetry Festival Preparation
Here are a few highlights, with links, to events of the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Please be aware that Gold Passes are...
Enbridge Pipeline Poetry Resistance
This in from Christine LeClerc about an amazing piece of resistance to the tar-sands pipeline in poetry form. The poem...
Cascadia Poetry Interview
Crystal Curry is writing a piece on the Cascadia Poetry Festival and had a few questions for me. I thought I'd get the...