2026 Cascadia Poetry Festival 10
Seattle Schedule
Friday, October 9, 2026
8:00–9:00 am
Registration
Location:
Rainier Beach Community Club
6038 S Pilgrim St, Seattle, WA 98118
9:30 am–12 noon
Workshops
Startling the Poem Awake
Tess Gallagher
Location: Rainier Beach Community Club
Flickers of the Poetic, A Watch Party
Rodrigo Toscano & Roxi Power
Location: Meet at Rainier Beach Community Club, and walk to Kubota Garden
12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00–4:00 pm
Workshops
Concerning Work and Poetry (of Course the Mundane is Generative!)
Gary Copeland Lilley
Location: Rainier Beach Community Club
This Green Being
Linda Russo
Location: Meet at Rainier Beach Community Club, and walk to Chinook Beach Park
5:00–7:00 pm
Dinner Break
7:00–9:00 pm
Reading:
Stephen Collis, Tess Gallagher, Gary Copeland Lilley
Location: Rainier Beach Community Club
6038 S Pilgrim St, Seattle, WA 98118
9:30–11:00pm
Cascadia Unfiltered with Greg Bem, Zach Charles, Mateo Quispe & Ankober Yewondwossen
Rhea Melina and other poets. Location: To be announced
Saturday, October 10, 2025
Location: Rainier Beach Community Club
6038 S Pilgrim St, Seattle, WA 98118
9:15–9:30 am
Invocation by Mateo Quispe
9:30–12:00 noon
Cascadia as a Field of Action (Bioregional Poetics)
David Abel, Linda Russo, Stephen Collis, Alicia Hokanson moderator
Cascadia as a Field of Action (Poetry as Politics)
Rodrigo Toscano, Alex Gallo-Brown, Ching-In Chen, Gary Copeland Lilley, Roxi Power moderator
12:00–2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00–3:00 pm
Greg Bem, Bill Carty, David Abel, Somos Ajolotes with José Juan Gómez Becerra and Gabriella Gutiérrez Y Muhs as mc
3:30–5:00 pm
Entrance Journal
Dion O’Reilly.
Also, Ching-In Chen, Nadine Maestas, Mateo Quispe & Geneviève Hicks w/ Matt Trease mc
5:00–7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00–8:00 pm
Main Stage Reading
Amaranth Borsuk with Terri Witek, Rodrigo Toscano.
8:00–9:00 pm
Cascadia mono-poem
1 poem per poet, no intros. Gabriella Gutiérrez Y Muhs emcee.
Sunday, October 11, 2025
8:00–10:00 am
Learn about Cascadia Poetics LAB with board members and key volunteers at Red Wing Cafe
11:00 am–12:30 pm
Kubota Garden Reading
Xavier Cavazos, Linda Russo. Paul E. Nelson emcee
12:30–2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00–3:00 pm
Memorial Reading: Honoring Poets We Lost in 2026
Tributes to Margareta Waterman (by Michael Hureaux), Richard Meadows on John Brehm, Sherri Levine on Koon Woon, Alicia Hokanson on Wendell Berry, Denis Mair on Yan Li, Jeanne Heuving on Rachel Blau Du Plessis, and Dan Clarkson on David McCloskey. Lowell Murphree emcee.
3:00–4:00 pm
Winter in America (Still
Roxi Power, allia abdullah-matta, Mateo Quispe, Dion O’Reilly, Matt Trease, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Rodrigo Toscano, Zach Charles, Rhea Melina, Jim Dott, Christopher Buckley and others.