by Veronica Martinez | Aug 30, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
The weekend of August 21-24, Paul Nelson and 3/4 of the Cascadia 2050 crew embarked on a journey to Cumberland, British Columbia for the Rain Shadow Poetry Festival! The first night of the festival, we celebrated the release of poet and CPL friend Lorin Medley’s...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 30, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Are you looking for inspiration for you next poetry postcard? Take a page from Robert Duncan, a devotee of Hilda “H.D.” Doolittle and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance. In Towards an Open Universe, Duncan weaves together myth, personal myth,...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 19, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry From Journalism Exercise The news is chaotic and constant these days, but this week we bring you an exercise that can help you harness it for your poetry this week- straight from one of our 2024 LifeAs Rehearsal For the Poem classes: If you have never written...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 15, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
To AI or Not to AI? (Definitely not.) From Postcard Poet Kathy Paul: I’ve loved participating in the summer Poetry Postcard Fest since I first heard about it in 2014 or 2015. I’ve introduced several friends to the Fest, and they love it, too. Every year, we watch our...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 7, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Last week we brought you some inspiration from our 2024 Life As Rehearsal For the Poem and Poetics As Cosmology course, and this week we have something from a course from earlier this year to help get your creativity flowing and your neurons firing during and after...
