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Sam Hamill’s Narrow Road to the Interior Winter Workshop

January 8, 2025
Veronica Martinez

Sam Hamill’s Narrow Road to the Interior Workshop

Happy 2025! This year, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be expanding our workshop offerings and welcoming new workshop teachers! We are so excited to dive deeper into the foundational material of our organization.

The first new workshop of the year is Sam Hamill’s Narrow Road to the Interior, taught by Katie Sarah Zale. This generative workshop will explore the poetic work of poet, translator, editor, Zen Buddhist, co-founder of Copper Canyon Press, and activist for Poets Against (the)War, Sam Hamill. In the workshop, attendees will dive into topics surrounding the lasting impact of ancient tradition on defining quality poetry, the Beat poets, political poetry, and more.

Workshop facilitator Katie Sarah Zale Katie’s has published four poetry collection, includingThe Weight of a Leaf (Kelsay Books), a finalist for the Arizona Book Award. She is the director of a poetry reading series in Tucson, Arizona. She is co-editor of Winter in America (Again (Carbonation Press), poems in response to the 2024 Presidential election, is also working on a biography of Sam Hamill.

Join us for a dive into the work of Sam Hamill and how past and politics can inform our own writing!

February 8 – March 8, 2025 (Saturdays) 
Feb. 8, 15, 22
March 1, 8
3-5 PM PST
Online
REGISTER HERE

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