Scott Owens is one of more than 2,000 people living in their vehicles across Seattle. In vans and cars, this segment of the homeless population lives a fragile existence on the margins, finding it difficult to get access to bathrooms and showers--and always facing the possibility of eviction by police.
Eden Robinson, a Haisla/Heiltsuk author from British Columbia, talks with poet Rachel Rose about her Trickster series of novels, her goofy sense of humor, forming a writing community among Indigenous writers, and her approach to crafting narrative and finding a compelling narrator.
Seattle poet Paul Nelson's ode to the runs of king salmon returning to the Elwha River after the dam is gone.
"He’s back! Belly full of planktonic diatoms, copepods, kelp, seaweed, jellyfish, starfish, bugs, amphipods & crustaceans so delicious served up at Sakura as sake..."
A hike for all ages, the Theler Wetlands area on Washington's Kitsap Peninsula offers easy walks along the shores of Hood Canal. Bring your binoculars, because you'll have opportunities to spot herons, eagles, osprey, swallows, deer, otters, and a plethora of other critters.
"It’s unnatural to see the tears of my children, husbands,
and then mine—all collected on the roof of my house."
A dreamlike exploration of desire and mortality from Seattle poet E.J. Koh, from her collection, A Lesser Love.
Women go public with Sherman Alexie harassment accusations, Washington state protects net neutrality, BC overdose deaths top suicides & accidents, a tsunami of trash on Cascadia's beaches, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art turns five, and poet Shayla Lawson's obsession with Frank Ocean.
Washington will phase out net-pen farming of Atlantic salmon, Oregon fails to pass cap and trade carbon bill, is $3700 rent in Vancouver "affordable?," the enduring tradition of Indigenous dance in BC, Seattle's Black Lives Matter has its #MeToo moment, and an essay by Portland novelist Omar El Akkad.
". . . sweeping the porch
I felt it the rye and salt
dry-roasted
wallop of honey wind. . . "
Read two new poems by Seattle poet Montreux Rotholtz, whose poems pay precise attention to language.
WA governor vetoes public disclosure bill, Cascadia-based outdoor retailers boycott gear associated with gun companies, BC immigrant families use inter-generational living to beat housing costs, how a Japanese American family saved Puget Sound oysters, and "The Wall," a poem by Anita Endrezze.
Cascadia mag original: fighting for racial equity in the pot business. Transit use up in Vancity and Seattle, Portland penalizes landlords with excessive rent hikes, is it time for proportional representation in BC?, the fight over Oregon's beavers, and a Seattle writer's new book on the decline of native bees.
