Commentaries - May 2015

Cascadia Poetry Festival

Rethinking Borders through bioregional poetries

http://cascadia-institute.org/
Map of Cascadia by Dr. David McCloskey of the Cascadia Institute

I can't think of a better way to begin this commentary about emplaced poetries than through the Cascadia Poetry Festival convening presently on Vancouver Island, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, April 30 to May 3. Emphasizing bioregional boundaries over those of nation-states, the Cascadian Movement elaborates a new geographically-based sense of place.

Errata: Corrections to Duncan's retrospective

The two volumes of Robert Duncan’s Collected Early Poems and Plays and Collected Later Poems and Plays (edited by Peter Quartermain), which appeared from the University of California Press in 2013 and 2014, make all of Duncan’s published poetry at last readily available.