EventsMarch 30: Thursday, 7 pm Pacific
Zoom Reading for the BC Launch of Cascadia Field Guide! Cascadia's Canadian contributors, along with southern editor Derek Sheffield, will celebrate this book and its trans-national sense of being. Featuring: Maleea Acker, Yvonne Blomer, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Matt Rader, Al Rempel, Derek Sheffield, Sandy Shreve, Bren Simmers, Rob Taylor and Isaac Yuen. Hosted by Rob Taylor and the University of the Fraser Valley. Register here for the Zoom event April 7 - 29 Cascadia Field Guide Exhibit curated by Derek Sheffield Original artwork from Cascadia Field Guide by artists Justin Gibbens, Cori Dantini, Claire Emery, Sarah Van Sanden, Travis London, Emily Poole. Opening night: April 7, 5 - 7 pm Gallery One 408 N Pearl St. Ellensburg, WA Thursday, April 20 - EARTH DAY CELEBRATIONS
Cascadia Field Guide at GetLit! in Spokane, WA Headliner: Ada Limón, US Poet Laureate,
September 21 - 24 LiTFUSE! Tieton, WA Headliner: Cornelius Eady details & registration coming soon Past EventsThursday, March 9, 2023, 6 pm
BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION Seattle Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave. Featuring artists Justin Gibbins, Rachel Kessler, Erin Fox, Travis London; poets Sean Hill, Jane Wong, Kathryn Smith, Betsy Aoki; editors CMarie Fuhrman, Elizabeth Bradfield, Derek Sheffield There will be books, broadsides, art, conversation, poetry! AWP BOOK FAIR, Seattle Convention Center March 9 - 11
Twitter livestream: Paisley Rekdal interviews Derek Sheffield, Garrett Hongo, and Carmen Selam about Cascadia Field Guide for High Country News. @highcountrynews |
advance praise"Have you ever been so filled up with the wonder of a place that it wants to spill out as a song? Well, here is the songbook. I imagine walking through a forest and pausing to read Cascadia aloud to a listening cedar or a dipper. I think they’ll love it. There are field guides that help us to see, and to name and to know. Cascadia does all of that and more. This is a guide to relationship. These illuminating pages are a gift in reciprocity for the gifts of the land."
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2022 MacArthur Fellow and author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants “This field guide is a deeply informative and wildly exuberant visual and literary romp through one of the most spectacular regions of the world—a varied chorus of voices and visual talents, all celebrating the animals and plants of the great Pacific Northwest.” – Ray Troll, artist and co-author of Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline “This beautiful choral celebration of entanglement ongoing and evermore is amazing, a wonder, a gratitude.” – Ross Gay, author of Inciting Joy and The Book of Delights "The rich array of writers and artists in Cascadia Field Guide takes us by verse and image through one of the most diverse eco-regions in North America. The collection, inspired by ecological and cultural inclusion, catalogs beast by beast and habitat by habitat why so many look to the northwest corner of the nation for wild respite. More than a collection, it is an essential compendium to the Pacific Northwest; a "feel guide" to an extraordinary place." – J. Drew Lanham, 2022 MacArthur Fellow and author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature and Sparrow Envy - Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts from Reviews & readers“I really do want everyone to go out and get this field guide because, I can honestly say, I’ve never seen an anthology like it. Its beauty, its plentitude, and its inclusiveness. It’s really startling and wonderful.” – Paisley Rekdal, in a conversation with Derek Sheffield and Garrett Hongo for High Country News. Listen to the whole conversation here.
"So different and more inspiring than a typical field guide, and I like field guides! I can only imagine what a labor of love it was to collaborate on a project like this, and am in awe of the finished result." –Sharon Lunz, former Development Director for the Chelan Douglas County Land Trust "The expansive region might seem too vast and diverse to easily summarize, yet authors Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield have managed to seamlessly capture the wildness, wonder, and beauty of the bioregion in this book." -- "A New Field Guide’s Enchanting Look at the Cascadia Region" 425 Magazine, March, 2023 "I can’t think of a more handsome and inclusive book than this! It’s just so encouraging to see a collection that reflects, as much as possible, the entirety of our natural and social world. I feel this reflects a new generation and an inclusive vision." – Garrett Hongo "I have to send a river of gratitude to the three of you, and everyone, for bringing forth such a stunning book...not a book exactly, but a kind of ecosystem disguised as a book, a bioregion in book form, a suite of blessings wrapped into a medicine bundle to bring travelers through our times safely into place."– Kim Stafford "Staggeringly beautiful. I'm awe-struck." – David Oates “There is so much more about birds and bears, slugs and herbs, and fish, lizards and crabs; all bound together in this ecological masterpiece aiming to meld art and science.” –San Francisco Book Review “Absolutely stunning in all possible ways! The most sexy field guide out there!” –Justin Gibbens, Artist |
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Edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, Derek Sheffield Mountaineers Books 2023 |