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May 1st: Resistance is fertile!

Posted on 1 May, 2012 by cascadiasolidaria

The riots When the riots come the old Chilean poets will come out to the street to see what’s going on When the riots come anguish will rent a room in a hard-luck hotel and will lie there until it … Continue reading →

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Posdata: Truth as transgression

Posted on 29 April, 2012 by cascadiasolidaria

Extract from the Guatemalan “Military Diary,” a military intelligence register of detained individuals, most of whom were disappeared.  The code “-300-” is interpreted to mean that the individual depicted was executed. P.D. The most disturbing scene recounted in Bolaño’s Estrella distante … Continue reading →

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Exhibits from Bolaño: Culture and atrocity

Posted on 29 April, 2012 by cascadiasolidaria

Posters showing the faces of people disappeared and killed by the Guatemalan state alongside graffiti depicting Salvador Dali, Guatemala City Primary readings: Estrella Distante (1996) and Nocturno de Chile (2000), Roberto Bolaño I knew while reading that Roberto Bolaño’s Los detectives salvajes (The Savage … Continue reading →

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Inspiration is challenge

Posted on 9 April, 2012 by cascadiasolidaria

∞ Is it abundance, or freedom of some sort which fails me?  It must be rage.  Not a certain kind of amorous rage.  Just simple, violent rage.  The more violent, the better.  The rage of those who don’t know anything. … Continue reading →

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Interment (For those who have not lived to see justice)

Posted on 4 January, 2012 by cascadiasolidaria

In Guatemala City’s military hospital, retired General Héctor Mario López Fuentes languishes, awaiting trial for genocide.  Former dictator General Oscar Mejía Víctores, until recently also detained at the military hospital, has been released to house arrest, and Guatemala’s Attorney Generals’ … Continue reading →

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Lovelife Distro presents poems by Cascadia Solidaria

Posted on 20 June, 2011 by cascadiasolidaria

Cascadian compa Jane Applesauce will be travelling North America this summer, playing music as Cowlick and carrying along a suitcase full of fine zines, comics and CDs as part of the brand-new Lovelife Distro. The tour is already on the … Continue reading →

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“Report of an Injustice”

Posted on 21 March, 2011 by cascadiasolidaria

Update March 21: Amnesty International Urgent Action 83/11: “Forced eviction of communities in Guatemala” On March 19, 2011, the 44th anniversary of the torture and murder of poet and guerrilla Otto René Castillo and his comrade Nora Paiz by the … Continue reading →

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Absence: poem for Catalina Mucú Maas

Posted on 16 March, 2011 by cascadiasolidaria

A friend writes: “The 8th of March was International Women’s Day. All day my inbox flooded with emails acknowledging the brave women who have campaigned over the years for equality and justice. Then the following day, I received a beautiful … Continue reading →

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New publication – Cascadia Solidaria: Poems and Translations

Posted on 3 February, 2011 by cascadiasolidaria

I woke this early this morning, feeling strangely moved to create art, to finally finish a poetry zine project that I’ve been working on in bits and pieces over the last few years.  I was excited to be in Cascadia … Continue reading →

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2010 in novels

Posted on 24 December, 2010 by cascadiasolidaria

In an era of information super-saturation, the ritual of year’s end lists is less a matter of definitive “best of” status than a glimpse into the fragments of media which most influenced each individual observer’s worldview and experience over the … Continue reading →

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