Support Cascadia Poetics Lab!
November 1-3, 2024, we hosted a beautiful 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival at the Hugo House, Neukom Vivarium and Spring Street Center in Seattle. Cascadia Poetry Festival 8 featured multiple prominent poets and academics from throughout the Cascadia bioregion, and gathered over 70 participants from around the country! On the second day of the festival during a panel on Wilson’s Bowl, iconic Vancouver poet and longtime friend of Cascadia Poetics Lab Daphne Marlatt opened her reading with this statement about the festival:
We are so grateful for Daphne’s support of the festival and for everyone that made the event a successful gathering of poetic and artistic community.
Giving Tuesday
The 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival was a celebration of the publication of Cascadian Zen Volume II, published by Watershed Press, the second edition to our anthology of Cascadian art and poetry. However, the festival has a budget of approximately $30,000, and printing costs for the Cascadian Zen Volume II will not be recouped for months. A year-end donation helps us get through this lean post-festival time.
December 3, 2024 marks Giving Tuesday, the national day of giving in which organizations around the country like ours work to raise funds for their offerings. Cascadia Poetics Lab is able to continue providing its programming because of generous donations from our supporters, and we are asking for your financial support this Giving Tuesday!
Our organization provides a unique perspective as we organize bioregionally and explore poetry’s relationship to surrounding ecosystems and the present moment. We reject national boundaries in favor of a bioregional culture built for the 21st century. Cascadia Poetics Lab believes that our mission to empower people to practice poetry and deepen connections to place, self and the present moment is vital to the well-being of all living through the current environmental/political crises, no matter who you are.
Please consider a year end donation, sign up for a workshop, sponsor the podcast, make a donation targeted at our publishing imprint Watershed Press or buy a few copies of Cascadian Zen. CPL turns 31 on December 14, 2024, and we can use support at this time to go into 2025 in a financially robust way.
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