Here’s a second growth larch, fir, pine, cedar and spruce forest in the North Okanagan Valley. It has regrown largely with larch. Here is a cut from 4 years back. Seed trees […]
There Has Got to Be a Better Way
The Sməlqmix Apricot is Back!
She took last year to heal from the cold, but look at her now! Calling her friends far and wide, too! (They come, of course.)
How to Get to Cascadia
Having trouble finding Cascadia, now that the US-Canadian Border is becoming fraught? Well… That’s right. You can get there. But maybe not the direct way. By plugging in? Well, you might get […]
Cascadia: A Braided Land 2
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
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 […]
Okanagan Okanogan 