Cascadia Poetry Festival 8 Floricanto! 

On Saturday, November 2, Cascadia Poetry Festival 8 will open its doors to the public for the Floricanto Cascadia, hosted by Lorna Dee Cervantes! Floricanto is “Flower & Song” in Spanish from the Nahuatl (Mexíca) word for Poetry. The Floricanto will be a curated symphony of voices from Cascadia showcasing Indigenous American poets, centering Mexican-American, Chicana/o and Latinx poetry from Latin America present in Cascadia. It will be closed out with an open mic monopoem reading, and an altár will be constructed by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and Lorna Dee Cervantes in celebration of Día de los Muertos weekend to honor those who have passed on. 

Lorna Dee Cervantes says of the Floricanto Cascadia, “Fulfilling a prophecy heard from Elders in my early teens about The People of The North (Eagle) and The South (Condor) coming together in ‘Aztlan’ (Place of Herons) in the North for peace and understanding; that it was time to share secret, sacred ancestral knowledge with all, subjugated knowledges, ‘because the Earth needs healing’ from a world gone ‘out of balance’…Knowledges in which Poetry gives us access–in this place, now.”

This event will be from 7-9 PM on Saturday, November 2 at the Hugo House, and is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Please encourage your loved ones to join us for this celebration of poetry in Cascadia. The Cascadia Poetry Festival is quickly approaching, and registration is still open! We hope to see you there!