The Postcard as Bread or…

The Postcard as Bread or…

…It’s the vehicle for getting the offering to other poets. (from Sally Hedges-Blanquez) Here are a few things I’ve learned in the 5 years I’ve been a postcard poet: ● Postcards can be made from boxes you were planning to recycle. (Triscuits,Grape Nut Flakes,...
Five Ways to Become a Postcard Pro

Five Ways to Become a Postcard Pro

From Judy Kleinberg: If you’re a newcomer to the Poetry Postcard Fest, you may be uncertain about the “right way” to do this crazy thing of writing and sending poems on postcards. Let me just assure you: there is no wrong way. That said, from the perspective of...
LITTLE BOOK, BIG FILE

LITTLE BOOK, BIG FILE

The Poetry Postcard Fest is my most consistent experience with what Paul (Paul E Nelson, founding director of Cascadia Poetics Lab and co-founder of the postcard fest) calls “practicing spontaneity.” Intellectually, I know what spontaneous creativity is....
CPL’s New AA – Veronica Martinez

CPL’s New AA – Veronica Martinez

We are delighted to announce that the Cascadia Poetics Lab has a new Administrative Assistant, Veronica Martinez. A little about her: Veronica Martinez is Cascadia Poetics Lab’s Administrative Assistant and is a fiction writer, poet, and musician. Veronica graduated...
The Columbia River Confluence Project

The Columbia River Confluence Project

The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is an interview with Ann Batchelor Hursey, author of Field Notes: To Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Landscapes, and Lou Cabeen, the artist responsible for the Field Notes Companion artist book. The introduction: Roll on, Columbia,...