I stopped by the canyon to read the news today. I’d say it was good.
News Written in Stone
One of my Shanties is on the CBC Poetry Prize Long List
Song for the Earth and the Water Makes the CBC Poetry Prize Long List! Posted on November 7, 2024 One of the closing poems from my manuscript “We are George Ryga,” proletarian songs […]
The Salmon Shanties, reviewed.
It’s great to have readers! I set out to follow my river home and to sing the journey as a map. The Nkwentkwitkw, below Rattlesnake Ridge, photo by Harold Rhenisch I had […]
A Meditation at Buffalo Eddy
A petroglyph site on the Snake River south of Asotin, called “Buffalo Eddy” because of the dominant figure below, speaks to the river day and night. The figure appears nowhere else and […]
A Private and Public Election
In much of Cascadia, public space is very limited. Here is a narrow strip of it, winding through the Palouse, in one of our regions administered by the USA. Washington State Highway […]
Is it Geology or Not?
Well, yes, it is. You can see the flood basalts here in the Grand Coulee, the thin pours of lava that made the Columbia Plateau, and you can see the result of […]
Downtown Grand Coulee
We went downtown today. Here’s one of the main intersections above Lake Lenore. Settler culture calls this a rock that has fallen off a cliff, which it is, but if you are […]
Rural or Urban or …?
The other day, here, https://okanaganokanogan.com/2024/10/17/what-does-rural-british-columbia-need/, I rephrased the question “What does rural British Columbia need?” as an entirely different one: “What do the land and water need?” Beaver Bay, Big Bar Lake. […]
What Does Rural British Columbia Need?
Well, respect, really. Dr. Sarah-Patricia Breen from Selkirk College is clear on that. The respect to be allowed self-determination. The respect to not be seen as a place somehow inferior, or substandard, […]
Earth and Sky
On the northern flank of Kobau Mountain, they flow into each other. Yesterday it was best to speak of them as one. Still are.
Okanagan Okanogan 