Paul E Nelson presenting at Cascadia Poetry Festival 8, photo by Leszek Chudzinski
Paul Nelson’s ongoing honing of the Day Song poetry event has produced some of the most lively and consequential verse of our time. How else write about the calamities and demands and mental/emotional/political consequences of the materialist apocalypse upon us, than an ongoing poesis of awareness and participation the anti-form the Day Song provides? Truly a praxis of proprioception and of Olson’s demand to “keep it moving…
– Sharon Thesen, Cascadian Poet/Scholar from B.C.
439. Michael Hanner, Eugene, OR – Mr. Breeze
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438. Carol Dorf, Berkeley, CA – Kiss the Morning Glory
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437. Mark Allen Jenkins, Dallas, TX – Edge of Decomposition
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436. Aaron Kokorowski, Seattle, WA – Frowning Moon
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Habib in Seattle, Part Deux
We left off with El Habib Louai's first sushi experience with Sam Hamill and his daughter Eron and I at Sakura in Burlington. (See this post.) Monday (8.12.13) Habib got to go thrift shopping with...
435. Mel Functioning, Singapore – Collars Up!
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434. to Amorak Huey, E. Grand Rapids, MI – Mambo de la Noche
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433. Barbara Barg, Chicago, IL – What’s Left Mambo.png
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432. to David Daniels, Denver, CO – Buttercup Mambo
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Interview with Beat Nun Mary Norbert Körte (Oct 25, 2019)
The second and third interviews with former Catholic Nun Mary Norbert Körte were conducted by your humble narrator on Friday, and Saturday, October 25 and 26, 2019. While the woodstove fire crackled...
Reading in Ukiah
I will be heading to extreme Southern Cascadia Thursday, and go out of the bioregion to read in Ukiah, California. I am headed south to meet and interview Mary Norbert Körte, a poet, and former...
Happy 87th Michael McClure
I loved hearing Michael McClure and Allen Ginsberg at Naropa in 1976. See:...
In Honor of David McCloskey “The Father of Cascadia”
David McCloskey passed away on July 3. In honor of his lifetime of work to create and spread a culture that was deeply connected to the Cascadian bioregion, Cascadian Prophets, which owes more than just its name to his work, we want to share this interview from October, 2013. Find it transcribed on our website.
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In Honor of David McCloskey "The Father of Cascadia"
How does one make literary art about this time in history that avoids rhetoric and facile political positioning in this era of the spectacle? How does one avoid being consumed by the simultaneous collapse of so many systems — some being eviscerated by people in positions designed to protect such systems? Deborah Poe has some idea based on her submission to the upcoming anthology Winter in America (Still.
Deborah is the author of several books of poetry including keep, Elements, and Our Parenthetical Ontology, as well as a novella in verse, Hélène. Her visual works–video poems and handmade book objects–have been exhibited throughout the US. She lives on stolen Coast Salish land, specifically the ancestral homeland of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.
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