by Veronica Martinez | Mar 10, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
On March 27, 2025 join us in Los Angeles for an off-site AWP conference event for Winter in America (Again! Join poets Rodrigo Toscano, Elizabeth Robinson, Susanne Dyckman, Mark Scroggins, Dana Teen Lomax, Dion O’Reilly, Holly Hughes, Matt Trease and more for our gala...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 10, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF Committee Member Margaret Lee: Last year, my theme for the Fest was Postcards from Where I Have Never Been. I was tired of reality and ready for fiction. My 31 cards named unfamiliar or imagined places. Did I connect the picture on the front to the poem on...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 8, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Nature Talk by Flávia Rocha Release Event On February 23, 2025, Carbonation Press, led by Greg Bem, hosted a release event for their recent publication Nature Talk by Brazilian poet, editor and journalist Flávia Rocha. The release event and reading was hosted via...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 4, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
On February 21, 2025, Zach Charles and I (Veronica Martinez) visited Seattle University to talk about Cascadia 2050, CPL’s youth initiative, to one of Professor Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs’ poetry courses. The class had about 20 undergraduates attending. We...
by Veronica Martinez | Feb 25, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We opened our second day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on Saturday, November 2, 2024 with a panel entitled “Issei Zen & Other Migrations.” The panel explores the work of writers that experienced the Japanese internment camps in America and the...