by Veronica Martinez | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog
Happy New Year from Cascadia Poetics Lab! Happy New Year! 2024 was a successful and enriching year for poetry and place in Cascadia! This year, we introduced new in-person and online programming that gathered community and encouraged mindful and intentional...
by Zach Charles | Jan 13, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
Mini-Forest Revolution by Hannah Lewis When I say the word infrastructure, what do you imagine? Huge concrete highways, towering steel skyscrapers, the city bus? These are things I picture, but after reading Mini-Forest Revolution by Hannah Lewis something greener is...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 13, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Thinkingwith: Writing Strategies for Reconnecting to Earth Workshop Next month, we will be welcoming poet, artist, teacher and astrologer Matt Trease as facilitator for another workshop, Thinkingwith: Writing Strategies for Reconnecting to Earth. This lab will focus...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 8, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Sam Hamill’s Narrow Road to the Interior Workshop Happy 2025! This year, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be expanding our workshop offerings and welcoming new workshop teachers! We are so excited to dive deeper into the foundational material of our organization. The...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 6, 2025 | CPL 2050
Zach Charles 24 Portraits at 24 Book Launch! Join us for a celebration of the publication of Zach Charles’ first poetry collection 24 Portraits at 24! Zach is a member of CPL’s Poetry Postcard Fest committee, Cascadia 2050, is Paul Nelson’s audio...
by Zach Charles | Jan 4, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
George Draffan is a researcher, the head of the Public Information Network and the co-author of Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests. He discussed the tax subsidies to corporations who deforest the world, the history of how industrial logging has...
by Ryukan | Jan 4, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Hello, My name is Ricardo de la Torre and I work as Curator of Art and Music at Lakewold Gardens. We are a historically recognized public garden and non-profit organization in Lakewood, WA and we host an annual Winter Garden Poetry event. Alongside it we put out a...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 21, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF8 Friday Night Keynote Reading by CA Conrad On November 1, 2024, we kicked off the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival at the Hugo House with a keynote reading by brilliant poet and academic CA Conrad, introduced by poet, astrologer and CPL board member Matt Trease....
by Ryukan | Dec 15, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
We caught up with Harold Rhenisch at what seemed like a good halfway point between Seattle, WA and Vernon, BC, Harrison Hot Springs. After an excellent breakfast at Muddy Waters Café, our chat on Wednesday, December 4 happened at 11am and featured Harold reading a few...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 11, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Sharon Thesen Daysong Chapbook published by broke press Iconic Canadian poet, educator and editor of Cascadian Prophets Sharon Thesen has released her newest chapbook “Day Song” though broke press. The chapbook takes from Thesen’s day song practice,...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 9, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Thank you for your support! Giving Tuesday 2024 was a success for Cascadia Poetics Lab thanks to the generosity of our supporters! This Giving Tuesday, we experienced an 82% increase in donations from last year. That’s AMAZING! We are consistently amazed by the...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 7, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CA Conrad’s Intrusion Ritual at CPF8 On Sunday, November 3, 2024, we closed out the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a reading and ritual by poet and professor CA Conrad. Conrad opened this ritual by talking about how many poets they know that don’t write...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 6, 2024 | News
Cascadian Zen Vol. II Review in Salish Current By Mickey Mann in Salish Current: ‘Cascadian Zen Volume II’ is an intricate portrait of what it means to live in the Cascadian region. “So the function of poetry, I think, is to present a candid view of the actual mind...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 3, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Support Cascadia Poetics Lab’s Programming! TODAY, December 3, 2024 marks Giving Tuesday, the national day of giving in which organizations around the country like ours work to raise funds for their offerings. Cascadia Poetics Lab asks you to extend your...
by Veronica Martinez | Nov 30, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
Introducing Cascadia 2050, CPL’s Youth Initiative! Cascadia Poetics Lab has recently established Cascadia 2050, previously referred to as the Youth Committee, to expand our offering to Cascadian poets under 40. We have changed the name of the committee to...
