by Roberta Hoffman | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, News
We are proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Community Accelerator Grant funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and awarded by ArtsFund! This gift will accelerate our organization’s efforts efforts as a literary arts and cultural organization in...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 23, 2023 | Cascadia Poetry Festival
Andrew Schelling -An ecologist, naturalist, and explorer of wilderness areas, Schelling has travelled in North America, Europe, India, and the Himalayas. His poetry is known for its engagement with the rhythms and elements of the natural world, its use of literary...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 26, 2022 | Books
by Paul E Nelson Paul Nelson’s Haibun moves with the spirit of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s greguerías, one of the unclassifiable micro-genres Gómez invented in his quest to evade (literary) capture. Equally, but uniquely, evasive, Nelson’s poems are gorgeous mongrels...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Worskhop
In this workshop we take the methods and the organismic stance toward poetics (& life) and continue to investigate how to deepen one’s own work and life through spontaneous writing, rituals, honing the intuition, exercising the imagination & discovering the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 27, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
MARGARET “MARGE” MERRILL, a life-long resident of Western New York and longtime participant in its poetry community, died suddenly on July 22 after a brief illness. She was 70. A former host of the Screening Room Reading Series in Amherst, her work appeared in many...