by Ryukan | Jun 14, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
We had a full house at the Flag Day 2026 online workshop for poets interested in making the most out of the summer Poetry Postcard Fest and the end of fest daysong, day-long writing ritual. We played a bit of an interview with Jerome Rothenberg discussing his Lorca...
by Zach Charles | Jun 13, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
This interview with Finn Menzies is an archival interview from November, 2017. Finn Menzies is an out transgender teacher in Seattle, WA. His work is his spiritual practice and his activism. He received his MFA from Mills College. He is the creator of FIN Zine, a...
by Ryukan | Jun 13, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
There are three weeks before the 20th Poetry Postcard Fest begins. Cumberland, BC and Cortes Island postcarder Scott Lawrance sends an article from The Guardian about the tradition of using poetry to get through the conflict. Link below. If you have not yet registered...
by Zach Charles | Jun 8, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
Part of the Cascadia 2050 mission is: to inspire artists and poets of the next generation to consider bioregionalism and intuitive poetic approach as a way to foster a more just and sustainable Cascadia by 2050. To this end, one of our goals is to interview people who...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 6, 2026 | Books
Winter in America (Still: Poets, Writers, and Artists Respond to a Fractured World The people know, it’s winter/ Lord knows / It’s winter in America And ain’t nobody fighting / ’Cause nobody knows what to save… – Gil Scott-Heron, Winter in America During...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 6, 2026 | Books
Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election Poets from the United States and beyond respond to the 2024 Presidential election. The poems are rooted in a belief that the incoming administration will not relieve or heal us from our nation’s past: the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 6, 2026 | Books
What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 5, 2026 | Books
Cascadian Prophets: Interviews 1999-2023 is the second collection of transcribed interviews taken from the 30 year history of the Cascadia Poetics Lab and conducted by Paul E Nelson, CPL Founder. Interviewees include 7 USAmericans and 7 Canadians, 7 women and 7 men...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
11a-1p, Saturday, June 6 is your last time to hang out with other postcard poets, learn about the area’s local history and create some collages for your 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest season. It’s year 20 and we felt that fact deserved a bit of celebration....
by Zach Charles | May 30, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
If you were to give the third or fourth longest river in the world a wish, it might simply to run free or to be clean and pure again. In the summer of 2013, the world’s third longest river, the Yangtze, will get 2,000 wishes in a program called the Kinship of...
by Ryukan | May 30, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Our last Poetry Postcard Activation of the year is set for Saturday, June 6, 2026, at Pritchard Beach. We’ll have postcard collage supplies, a postcard prompt provided by Cascadia 2050 and a talk about the history of the spot and plans to make it a waterfront...
by Ryukan | May 28, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
I met Barry McKinnon at a Gwillim Lake Writing Retreat near Tumbler Ridge in 2008. This is north of Prince George, maybe six hours west of Edmonton deep in the mountains. I worked in forestry at the time like many others in the area, and saw the poster in town in...
by Zach Charles | May 26, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
On Saturday, June 27, from 3 – 5pm, Cascadia 2050 will be hosting a workshop titled: I Want to Write a Poem (But Don’t Know How). Cost: free, suggested donation $25. Sign up here. In my experience, in conversations with friends, family, and acquaintances,...
by Zach Charles | May 24, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
This year the Poetry Postcard Fest celebrates its 20th anniversary. From the fest many a creative project has spawned, and one recent example of that is Julie Master’s book: No Headlines Here: Postcard Poems. Julie is the author of 2 other books, Away From Car Noise...
by Ryukan | May 23, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, News
We celebrated Cascadia Day 2026 at Vermillion with Andy Engelson at the Cascadia Journal/Cascadia Democratic Action and Wade Atkinson took some amazing photos! Thanks Wade! See the gallery here: https://wade.pixieset.com/cascadiadaypoetry/ Here are a few to whet yr...
