Squamish First Nation approves huge development project in Vancouver, Portland considers making transit free, the man from North Pender Island who watches vultures, Maya Jewell Zeller on being a writer who grew up in poverty, an essay by Kim Dhillon, and poetry by Alison Jennings.
This easy, all-season hike in Mount Rainier National Park offers a walk through a forest of massive old-growth trees, and a chance to explore the entrance to an abandoned mine shaft.
Cascadia Mag's Writers + Artists event tomorrow evening, Dec. 10! OR raises business taxes for schools, learning about the fight for Yakama fishing rights, construction could start soon on BC pipeline, the refuge that is Seattle's Kubota Garden, an essay by Janice Lee & poetry by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
In four poems, Shankar Narayan looks at how his South Asian heritage makes him an outsider in the US--as he takes refuge in the traditional kurta, refuses to change his name, and goes to cut a Christmas tree. Paired with his work is art by Taiwanese/Cantonese American artist Monyee Chau.
In two flash fiction pieces by Ruth Joffre, the Seattle author explores the fears and anxieties surrounding raising children--and the lies and narratives we spin out to cope with introducing them to a complicated world. Accompanying artwork by Seattle artist and illustrator Clare Johnson.
Three poems by Seattle-based poet Anastacia-Renee explore issues of the body, hunger, and writing as a single black mother. Featuring illustrations by Seattle artist Carol Rashawnna Williams.
In an essay filled with challenging bike commutes and jaded reporters, Kristen Millares Young writes of her days as a journalist at the Seattle P-I newspaper before its collapse, and her transition to a novelist after.
Yakama Nation writer & poet Emily Washines and Portland-based photographer Intisar Abioto document native salmon fishing traditions on the Columbia River and the civil rights struggle 50 years ago to secure fishing rights.
At 7 pm, Tuesday, December 3, join us in the Heritage Theater at the Yakama Nation Cultural Center in Toppenish for a free public talk, photo slideshow, documentary screening, and discussion about Yakama Nation salmon fishing traditions and the civil rights struggle for fishing rights.
Cascadia This Week debuts! Court halts WA car-tab measure, evictions in BC highest in Canada, Portland fuel facility at risk in earthquake, Seattle DJ battles cancer, an exhibit of masks in Newberg, OR, an essay by Jónína Kirton, and poetry by Woogee Bae and Geoff Inverarity.
