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What Happened to August?

What Happened to August?

From PPF Committee member Judy Kleinberg: If you’ve ever changed your name, you will appreciate how difficult it is to get rid of your previous name. The Poetry Postcard Fest has been around since...

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Anne Tardos on Cascadian Prophets

Anne Tardos on Cascadian Prophets

I am grateful today to bring you an interview with Anne Tardos on Cascadian Prophets, reading from and speaking about her newest book: The Always Already Absent Present.  The number 7, according to...

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Cascadia Poetics LAB Blog

Poetry Postcard Fest

An annual 56 day self-guided workshop in spontaneous composition and community-building.

PPF 2025 Graphic by Roberta Hoffman

Poetry Postcard Fest

An annual 56 day self-guided workshop in spontaneous composition and community-building.

PPF 2025 Graphic by Roberta Hoffman

Thank you

for an enormously sucessful 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival! Make plans for Cascadia Poetry Festival 9 at the Hugo House and other venues October 3, 4, and 5, 2025.

Cascadia Poetry Festival 8 Thank You

Thank You to Our Partners and Alliances:

Prolific Writers Life logo
National Endowment for the Arts logo
Office of Arts and Culture Seattle logo
2024 Grantee Community Accelerator Grant Arts Fund
Creative West logo
Poets & Writers logo
ARTS WA Washington Sate Arts Commission
Spring Street Center logo
humanities WASHINGTON logo
Subud Greater Seattle Logo
4 Culture Logo
White River Valley Museum
LA SALA, A Latinx Artist's Community logo
Mt St Helens illustration by Roberta Hoffman

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We recognize that our home office is on the ancestral homeland of the Duwamish, Muckleshoot and other Coastal Salish tribes. Our dedication to bioregionalism is to co-exist on this land in the sacred manner as practiced by the traditional ways of these indigenous people.

 

Statement on Ahimsa by Board Member Jason Wirth

January 20, 2021

The (Poetry Postcard Fest) and the Cascadia Poetry Festival (are) connected… When you’re writing poetry… part of poetry is the craft… rules (to be understood) in a variety of contexts… (Craft is…) a necessary but not sufficient condition. You’re also… experiencing your mind, at a very deep level. And that mind as you experience it more deeply, is not in a vacuum… It’s now and here… rooted in the socio-economic and ecological conditions that make it possible. And participating in… the spiritual exercise of these postcards, is already entering into… a deep bioregional awakening and conversion. In a way we’re trying for something like a spiritual revolution, and that poetry is not just an interesting thing that you can do, if you like. It’s a fundamental exercise of being here in a less harmful way… it’s a deep ahimsa, a deep practice of non-harming and cultivation. And so, it’s all connected… And… our ambition is… trying to have a mind that would be capable, of being in this place in a better way… We’re going to live or die, by how we come down on these issues going forward.