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This Wednesday, May 9 is Give Big, a day dedicated to drawing attention to nonprofits doing great work in Seattle and across Cascadia –and encouraging you to give them your financial support.
Cascadia Magazine and Cascadia Daily rely on the generous financial support of our readers to publish quality writing and photography from across the bioregion. If you’d take a moment to visit our donate page and join our supporting readers, we’d be grateful!
At Cascadia Daily, we’re big fans of of non-profit publications and organizations across the region that contribute to the unique culture of Cascadia. Here are a few of our favorites:
Crab Creek Review, publishing quality fiction, essays & poetry
Crosscut great journalism on issues important to Washington state
Hakai Magazine an award-winning online environmental magazine based on Vancouver Island
Hugo House Seattle-based center dedicated to literary arts
Investigate West a nonprofit organization publishing hard-hitting investigative journalism across Cascadia
Literary Arts dedicated to promoting reading, writing, and ideas across Oregon
Malahat Review, one of British Columbia’s most prestigious literary journals
Moss, a fab Seattle-based literary journal
Ricochet Media an online news site based in Vancouver and Montreal covering indigenous issues, the environment, and more
Sightline Institute a great organization dedicated to research and advocacy promoting sustainability in Cascadia
Seattle 7 Writers a collective of Seattle-area writers dedicated to promoting literacy in the Pacific Northwest
The Tyee fantastic Vancouver-based news site covering politics and environmental issues
Check them out and give them some love (and money!)
Meet the candidates for Portland city council
OPB has interviews with the five candidates running for the Portland city council position that opened with the retirement of commissioner Dan Saltzman. The deadline for the mail-election is May 15. Meanwhile in Vancouver, BC, longtime overdose-response advocate Sarah Blyth is running for city council, and her number one priority is affordable housing.
The BC pipeline project you’ve never heard of
CBC reports on a new proposed pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the remote port of Grassy Point on the British Columbia coast. It may be made irrelevant if Canada’s federal government passes a ban on new oil ports on the northern coast. Meanwhile leaders of BC First Nations, including Reuben George of the Tsleil-Waututh will be traveling to the Kinder Morgan shareholders meeting in Texas to point out legal concerns about the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
BC farmworker program not doing enough to prevent sexual assault
In a piece for The Tyee, Anelyse Weiler draws attention to the temporary worker program in British Columbia, where 7,500 guest workers (mostly from Latin America and many of them female) are subject high levels of sexual assault and have fewer rights and protections than Canadian citizens.
Say goodbye to mountain goats in Olympic National Park
Crosscut reports that the US National Park Service has a plan to relocate non-native mountain goats from Washington’s Olympic National Park. The goats were introduced in the early 20th century and a population of around 600 is destroying native flora.
BC Book Prizes awarded
At a gala event last week, the 2018 BC Book Prizes were awarded, and some of the books honored are Fiction: Brother by David Chariandy
Non-fiction: The Reconciliation Manifesto by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson
Poetry: Prison Industrial Complex Explodes by Mercedes Eng
Congratulations to the winners! For a complete list of winners in all categories, visit the BC Book Prize site.
Two poems by Mercedes Lawry
The literary journal Moss has two poems, “Seeds,” and “Lily, Dimmed” by Seattle-base poet Mercedes Lawry available to read online:
“The quiet is an egg I hold
in my cupped hands, thumbs
softly tapping as if life
still pooled inside…”
Read the full poems here. And if you subscribe to Moss by May 17, the latest print anthology, featuring this poem and many others (plus fiction, interviews & essays) will be yours forever!
That’s today’s arts, news, culture and mountain goats from across Cascadia. –Andrew Engelson
Photo credit: mountain goat courtesy of US Fish & Wildlife Service