"there is no separation between
her and obliteration when she watches
a juvenile squid, logilo opalescens
expire in the weathered palm of
the retired smokejumper..."
Shin Yu Pai's poem explores mortality and the creation of art in the space where cultures intersect.
Poet and UBC writing instructor Ian Williams talks about his new novel, Reproduction, as well as writing about race in Canada, creating unlikeable characters, and switching from poetry to fiction.
Two lyrical poems by award-winning poet Russell Thornton explore childhood memories, landscapes of Vancouver, and the mysterious power of the wind.
"I will hang myself in picture frames
in drawing rooms where grief
is not allowed a wicker chair"
Susan Rich's poem is an ode to the life and work of Hannah Maynard, a pioneer of experimental photography in British Columbia.
Two poems by Vancouver's Fiona Tinwei Lam explore human interactions with nature in Cascadia: observations on the endangered sunflower sea stars of the West Coast, and an ode to Canuck, Vancouver's most famous crow.
"Nothing spooks the horses into flight
like inertia. Not lightning, barn fire.
Not the whips we take to their sides
to drive them forward."
Two news poems, "Appaloosa," and "A Jar to Keep the Earth In" by Portland's John Sibley Williams.
Portland multimedia artist, poet, musician and photographer Dao Strom talks with Cascadia Magazine about the echoes of history in her work, returning to Vietnam, a continual sense of not-belonging, and her new book You Will Always Be Someone from Someplace Else.
Two poems of human-wildlife interactions in the San Juan Islands by Samuel Green, a former Washington state poet laureate.
"we entered ancient forest: grand fir, mountain hemlock,
silver fir. On the forest floor we found the familiar:
wild ginger, twayblade, oak fern, bedstraw."
Seattle poet Martha Silano's poem explores regrowth in a forest touched by fires.
"the sky is a black sheep
bleating and I can’t even
see the wolf in the photo
you texted me"
Adèle Barclay's poem of love and letting go on Galiano Island.
