by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 6, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF9 Invocation and Panel Video! On October 11, 2025, we started the second day of the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a invocation, land acknowledgment and panel at the Rainier Beach Community Club. The invocation and land acknowledgment featured Ken Workman, 5th...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 5, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Provide assistance for Jamaican community members affected by Hurricane Melissa From Staceyann Chin, poet and founder of Kindred on the Rock, an inclusive community farm in the mountains of Jamaica: Days ago, in the immediate aftermath of the storm, we picked up the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 4, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics Lab and founder Paul E. Nelson won a Humanities Washington Award! Thanks to a nomination by Katie Sarah Zale and magnificent letters of recommendation by Jason Wirth, Katie Sarah Zale and Zach Charles, Paul Nelson and the Cascadia Poetics Lab received...
by Roberta Hoffman | Oct 30, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
From Cascadia 2050 member Zach Charles: On Thursday, October 16, after a long day of teaching middle schoolers, I had the pleasure to continue working with the future of our Cascadian communities at Cascade K-8’s literacy night. I was joined by a variety of...
by Roberta Hoffman | Oct 28, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF9 Keynote Reading Video! On October 10, 2025 following concurrent breakout workshops, we started the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a keynote reading at the Rainier Beach Community Club. The reading featured poets Robert Lashley, Sharon Thesen, Roberto Harrison...
