Cascadian Zen Volume One
What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion?
It is through these questions and related inquiries that we seek to explore in the Cascadian Zen Anthology project, edited by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Paul E. Nelson, and Adelia MacWilliam, with Theresa Whitehill. Volume One is the first of two volumes in The Cascadian Zen Anthology project that bring together nonfiction, poetry, interviews, translations, and artwork, exploring expressions of Zen within the Cascadian bioregion.
The idea for this project grew out of
many iterations of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, hosted annually by the Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB, now Cascadia Poetics Lab). The collection is wide-ranging in geographic scope, with work from authors in Prince George to Willits, Kelowna to Port Townsend, Eureka to Seattle, Vancouver and Portland. Authors to be published in the two volume set include:
Sam Hamill, Mary Norbert Körte, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Cedar Sigo, Jane Hirshfield, Joanne Kyger, Philip Whalen, Denise Levertov, Tess Galagher, Brenda Hillman, José Kozer, Peter Levitt, Daphne Marlatt, Fred Wah, Meredith Quartermain, Jerry Martien, an essay by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma on Zen in the work of Sam Hamill and others
Release & Launch dates:
Release date: September 1, 2023
Launch date: October 6- 8, 2023, Cascadia Poetry Festival 7
Cascadian Zen Interview with Wedlidi Speck
December 18, 2020
Audio Interviews With Contributors to the Cascadian Zen Project
Interview with the designer and contributor to Cascadian Zen Volumes One and Two
Turn Pages: Cascadian Zen: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now, with Theresa Whitehill
KZYX&Z Public Radio; programmer: Toni Wheeler
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 (1/2 hour)
This episode features Toni's conversation with Theresa Whitehill, Ukiah poet, graphic designer and contributor to a two-volume series, Cascadian Zen. The books bring together nonfiction, poetry, interviews, translations, and artwork that explore expressions of Zen and the theme of water within the Cascadian bioregion.
link to audio: https://www.kzyx.org/show/turning-pages
Basket One: The Buddha Way
Daphne Marlatt
Diane di Prima
Joanne Kyger
Cedar Sigo
Philip Whalen
Gary Snyder
Albert Saijo
Mushim Patricia Ikeda
Terran Campbell
Cate Gable
Bob Redmond
Shirley Graham
Andrew Schelling
Jane Hirshfield
Peter Levitt
Robert Michael Pyle
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
José Kozer
Tetsuzen Jason M. Wirth
Basket Two: Empty Bowl
Sam Hamill
Denise Levertov
Tim McNulty
Mike O’Connor
Robert Sund
Glenn “Chip” Hughes
Ann Spiers
Samuel Green
Holly J. Hughes
Tess Gallagher
Michael Daley
Red Pine (Bill Porter)
Alice Derry
Alicia Hokanson
Bill Yake
Tom Jay
Judith Roche
Josh Hayes
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
Basket Three: Original Mind
Robert Bringhurst
Ray Grigg
Wedlidi Speck
Rena Priest
Jan Zwicky
Adelia MacWilliam
Robin Blaser
Brenda Hillman
George Stanley (interviewed by Barry McKinnon) + poems
Kate Braid
Gary Copeland Lilley
Jami Macarty
Roo Borson
John Brehm
Michael McClure
Paul E. Nelson
Mary Norbert Körte
