Poetry, Poetics and Scholars of Place in the Heart of Cascadia Sunday March 2, 2025 Room: Art 366 Arts Building, UBC Okanagan Campus, Kelowna The Two Cayuse Sisters, Wallula Presenters March 2: […]
Cascadia: A Braided Land 2
Cascadia: A Braided Land
Poetry, Poetics and Scholars of Place in the Heart of Cascadia Saturday March 1 & Sunday March 2, 2025 Room: Art 366 Arts Building, UBC Okanagan Campus, Kelowna Asotin Presenters: For Day […]
GARRY GOTTFRIEDSON & HAROLD RHENISCH Reading and Open Mic
Garry is coming to town! From 2:00 to 4:00 pm. on Saturday, January 25, at the Vernon Library, we will celebrate poetry together, and open the floor to an open Mic. Garry […]
Heads, Headlands, Headings and Memory
Let the canyon wren be our guide. Road rubble thrown into the Snake River is just road rubble. Photo by Harold Rhenisch It’s just hard to climb over. If you really want […]
News Written in Stone
I stopped by the canyon to read the news today. I’d say it was good.
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 […]
Okanagan Okanogan 