Jason Wirth, Paul Nelson, and Adelia MacWilliam

Co-editors Jason Wirth, Paul Nelson, and Adelia MacWilliam celebrate the release of Cascadian Zen with a lineup of the book's contributors. The volume features poetry, essays, artwork, and interviews, bringing together nonfiction, poetry, and translations that explore expressions of Zen within the Cascadia bioregion. Cascadian Zen, edited by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Paul E Nelson, and Adelia MacWilliam, with Theresa Whitehill, explores many questions: 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? If so, what is it? Who have been the teachers in the relatively short time that Zen has been known in this bioregion? What role does water play here, more so than in other bioregions and what implications does that have for the people who live here, for their practice? 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. Jason Tetsuzen Wirth is professor of philosophy at Seattle University and a Soto Zen priest. His recent books include Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy (2019), Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (2017), and the co-edited volume (with Bret Davis and Brian Schroeder) Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (2011). He is currently completing a manuscript on the cinema of Terrence Malick as well as a work of ecological philosophy called Turtle Island Anarchy. Jason lives in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed at the mouth of TUX woo’ kwib Creek. Poet and interviewer Paul E. Nelson founded the Cascadia Poetics LAB (formerly SPLAB) and the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, CPL’s produced hundreds of poetry events and 700 hours of interview programming with legendary poets and whole systems activists. Books include Haibun de la Serna, A Time Before Slaughter/Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia, American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012), American Sentences, and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies. Literary Executor for the late poet Sam Hamill, Paul lives in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed at the mouth of TUX woo’ kwib Creek and writes an American Sentence every day. Adelia MacWilliam has recently published a chapbook called Details of The Passage that documents what happens when you cast the mythic imagination across a piece of land that has been part of your family for over 100 years. Everything will out! She is currently working on a manuscript documenting her experiences in the wilderness called Tzu-jan, and a series of ghazals called Stilt Jill. Adelia lives on Vancouver Island in the Koksilah watershed and has been associated with Cascadia Poetics Lab for several years, inspired by the poetics and workshops. She is grateful and honoured to be part of the creation of Cascadian Zen.

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