Cascadia Poetics Lab in Cumberland

On August 22-24, 2025, Cascadia Poetics Lab’s sister organization Rain Shadow Poetics Lab is hosting Language and the Land, a multi-day poetry festival in Cumberland, B.C.! Rainshadow Poetics Lab is our Canadian connection predominantly organized by Matt Law and Adelia MacWilliam doing incredible poetic and bioregionalist work on Vancouver Island.

Language and the Land “brings together poets pursuing a sense of deep time and place from across greater Cascadia to pose the question, ‘What is a bioregional poetic practice?‘” and will feature readings, workshops and lectures featuring poets Paul Nelson, Harold Rhenisch, Garry Gottfriedson, Daphne Marlatt, Robert Bringhurst and Lorin Medley. Cascadia 2050, lead by Veronica Martinez, Zach Charles and Zaylan Jacobsen, will also have involvement in the festival.

We hope you will join us for a beautiful summer weekend of poetry and bioregionalism in the mountain-bike Mecca of Cumberland, bridging borders and barriers between USAmericans and our neighbors to the north. Learn more about the festival and Rainshadow Poetics Lab by clicking HERE. For information on tickets and acommodations, email rainshadowpoeticslab@gmail.com.