mission: to advance a bioregional poetics within the vancouver island rain shadow, building community through poetry
vancouver island’s mountainous spine protects the coastal lowlands on its eastern flank from the battering storms that blow in from the Pacific — our rain shadow
rain shadow poetics are founded on being of the world, rather than simply in it: we learn from and are sustained by the nature of our place, its languages and forms; we believe that the elements of a bioregion — flora, fauna, weather, ways of being — are inseparable from the psyche that perceives them
rain shadow poetics lab is a place to experiment, where investigations in language lead to deepened awareness of our corner of Cascadia; through this practice of attention, we develop way-finding tools to lead us to who we are where we are — poets of the rain shadow
rain shadow poetics lab 