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Elizabeth Bradfield and Derek Sheffield Friday September 29th, 2023 @ 7:00PM – 8:30 PM https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/20230929 Co-editors Elizabeth Bradfield and Derek Sheffield read from and discussed their recent release Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry celebrates the diverse yet interconnected region that stretches from Southeast Alaska to Northern California and from the Pacific Ocean to the Continental Divide through natural and cultural histories, poetry, and illustrations. Organized into 13 bioregions, the guide includes entries for everything from cryptobiotic soil and the western thatching ant to the giant Pacific octopus and Sitka spruce, as well as the likes of a common raven, hoary marmot, Idaho giant salamander, snowberry, and 120 more! Both well-established and new writers are included, representing a diverse spectrum of voices, with poems that range from comic to serious, colloquial to scientific, urban to off-the-grid, narrative to postmodern. Likewise, the artists span styles and mediums, using classic natural history drawing, form line design, graffiti, sketch, and more. All writers and artists have deep ties to the region. Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of five books, and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, Orion, and elsewhere. A Stegner Fellow and Audre Lorde Prize winner, she founded Broadsided Press, teaches at Brandeis University, and has worked as a naturalist in Cascadia and beyond for the past twenty-some years. Bradfield grew up in Tacoma and attended the University of Washington; she lives on Cape Cod. Derek Sheffield grew up in the Willamette Valley and on the shores of the Salish Sea. He is the author of four books, including Not for Luck, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and his poems have appeared in High Country News, Poetry, and Orion. For the past 20 years, he has taught nature writing at Wenatchee Valley College. The poetry editor of Terrain.org, he lives with his family near Leavenworth, Washington.

Cascadia Poetry Festival 7 – Seattle 2023: Friday October 6 7:00 pm: @ Spring Street Center, 1101 15th Avenue in Seattle: Join us for the publication celebration of the anthology, Cascadian Zen: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here & Now. Meet the editors, designer, and some of the contributing artists and writers. 7:20 pm – 9 pm – Keynote Reading @ Spring Street Center: Gary Copeland Lilley, Jan Zwicky, Tim McNulty, Robert Bringhurst (Cate Gable emcee) Saturday, October 7 Location: Spring Street Center, 1101 15th, Seattle, WA 98122 9 am – 9:30 am – Invocation 9:30 am – 9 pm – Exhibit, Spring Street Center Chapel: Heavy Lifting artists’ book, Moving Parts Press: view the book and accompanying project, a collaboration between book artist Felicia Rice and poet Theresa Whitehill. Link to Heavy Lifting prospectus. 9:30 am – 11 am – Panel 1 Empty Bowl (Tim McNulty, Michael Daley, Holly Hughes, Andrew Schelling, Cate Gable moderator) 11 am – 12 pm – Panel 2 The Poetics of De-Colonial Cascadia (Paul E Nelson, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Sara Marie Ortíz, Robert Bringhurst, Jason Wirth moderator) 12 pm – 1 pm – Lunch Break 1 pm – 4 pm – Workshop #1, 1 pm – 2:30pm – Writing Across Languages, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Talk #1, 1 pm – 2:30 pm – Bioregional Typography, Robert Bringhurst and Theresa Whitehill (pre-registration required) Workshop #2, 3 pm – 4:30 pm – Stimulating the Satori Moment in Poems, Tess Gallagher (pre-registration required) Talk #2, 3 pm – 4:30 pm – Eco-Poetics, Brenda Hillman and Andrew Schelling, Jan Zwicky 5 pm – 7 pm – Dinner for Staff, Faculty 7 pm – 9 pm – Saturday Main Stage: Brenda Hillman, Andrew Schelling, Tess Gallagher, Cedar Sigo, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs (Matt Trease emcee) 9 pm – 11 pm – After Party (Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122) One poem by various poets, hosted by Matt Trease and Amy Hirayama and organized by Eric Acosta. Sullivan Forderhase, Ching-In Chen, Katie Lee Ellison, Emma McVeigh, Martha Ryan, Joe Nasta, Simon Wolf, Eric Acosta, Amy Hirayama, Matt Gano, Ricardo Ruiz, Justine Chan, Emily Mundy, Acca Warren, Korede Oseni, Cass Garrison, Aleyda Gutierrez, Troy Osaki, Nanya Jhingran, Haines Whitacre, Rivka Clifton, Irving Ayala, Roxi Power, Dion O’Reilly, Jeremy Springsteed, Jim Cantú, Carlos Sibaja, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Paul Nelson and Matt Trease Sunday, October 8 Location: Spring Street Center and Kubota Garden 9am – Kubota Garden Tour by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth 10am – Reading at Kubota Garden with Michael Daley, Holly Hughes, Theresa Whitehill and Sara Marie Ortiz. 12 pm – 1 pm – Lunch Break 2 pm – 4 pm – Heavy Lifting Film (see the film trailer). Closing reading with tribute to Mary Norbert Körte , Mike O’Connor, Michael McClure and Bill Yake by Tim McNulty, Michael Daley, Andrew Schelling, Holly Hughes, Iris Cushing (via Zoom) & Amy Evans McClure.