2026 Cascadia Poetry Festival 10
Seattle Schedule

Friday, October 10, 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 for Staff, Faculty

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

Location: To be announced

Saturday, October 11, 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)

Sharon Thesen, David Abel, Linda Russo, Stephen Collis, Alicia Hokanson moderator

Cascadia as a Field of Action (Poetry as Politics)

Rodrigo Toscano, Chin-In Chen, Gary Copeland Lilley, Roxi Power moderator

12:00–2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00–3:00 pm

Greg Bem, Bill Carty, Xavier Cavazos, Somos Ajolotes with Gabriella Gutiérrez Y Muhs

3:30–5:00 pm

Entrance Journal

Dion O’Reilly, Roxi Power, Paul Nelson, Ching-In Chen, Nadine Maestas, and Geneviève Hicks

5:00–7:00 pm

Dinner

7:00–9:00 pm

Main Stage Reading

Amaranth Borsuk with Terri Witek, David Abel, Rodrigo Toscano

9:00–11:00 pm

Cascadia mono-poem

1 poem per poet, no intros. Gabriella Gutiérrez Y Muhs emcee

Location: TBA

Sunday, October 12, 2025

8:00–9:00 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

Sharon Thesen, 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 and David McCloskey. Lowell Murphree emcee

3:00–4:00 pm

Winter in America (Still

Roxi Power, allia abdullah-matta, Mateo Quispe, Zach Charles, others