by Zach Charles | Oct 20, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Cascadia Poetry Festival
On Saturday afternoon , October 10, 2026, Mateo Quispe read at Cascadia Poetry Festival 10 at the Rainier Beach Community Club. The other readers from this segment of the fest will be posted over the next couple weeks, including Ching-In Chen, Dion O’Reilly,...
by Zach Charles | Oct 17, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
This is part 3 of a multi part interview with Mary Norbert Körte. Listen to part 2 here, and part 1 here. After an initial interview, former Catholic Nun Mary Norbert Körte requested a follow up discussion because she felt she had been too harsh on her family. With...
by Ryukan | Oct 15, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
The reviews are coming in for the 10th Cascadia Poetry Festival. Denise Calvetti-Michaels said: I spent Saturday and Sunday afternoon, October 9th and 10th, attending the tenth annual Cascadia Poetry Festival held at the Rainier Community Beach Club in Seattle. I...
by Ryukan | Oct 14, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Now that the dust has settled from the 10th Cascadia Poetry Festival, we want to announce officially that we are creating a Latinx-centric event called Los Cerezos Literary Festival, April 16-18, 2027, at Seattle U and Kubota Garden. We’ve created a committee to...
by Roberta Hoffman | Oct 12, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
REGISTER HERE On Saturday, December 12, 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. This will be the third workshop aiming to demystify the process of...
by Ryukan | Oct 1, 2026 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Michael Kennedy: Dear Paul, Thank you for the entire Postcard Poets experience. I found it positive, satisfying, and delightfully creative. Each week a smattering of postcards would arrive in my mailbox and I celebrated each event. Right after I got my list, I...
by Ryukan | Oct 1, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
subduction (noun): 1. a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth’s mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. 2. A reading series that reflects an emerging bio-democracy...
by Zach Charles | Sep 30, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
This is part 2 of a multi part interview. Listen to part 1 here. After an initial interview, former Catholic Nun Mary Norbert Körte requested a follow up discussion because she felt she had been too harsh on her family. With the fire crackling in the background, she...
by Ryukan | Sep 30, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
From our friends at Watershed Press: This book features 11 conversations with Robert Bringhurst. Open this book to any page and you will find a compelling, plainspoken discussion of an interesting subject. It might be the relations between poetry and carpentry, the...
by Ryukan | Sep 28, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Want to learn about how candidates for King County District 2 stand on Arts & Culture? You have a chance to engage them and see the Founder of the Cascadia Poetics Lab read some poetry! Monday, October 5, 2026 @ 7:00 PMRainier Arts Center, 3515 S Alaska St,...
by Ryukan | Sep 14, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We are humbled and grateful to La Sala for their support of the 10th Cascadia Poetry Festival, October 9-11, 2026, at the Rainier Beach Community Club and Kubota Garden. As a way of supporting the festival in accordance with their mission, they are helping to pay for...
by Zach Charles | Sep 12, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
This interview with Tim McNulty on the 4th of edition of Olympic National Park: A Natural History was recorded Sunday, October 28, 2018, at the home of Tim & Mary McNulty, Lost Mountain, WA. The Poet and Nature Writer lives in these mountains and with these...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
The Poetry Postcard Festival inspired me to create what it creates: community. I joined for the first time last year and last year I launched the first annual speculative poetry, postcard exchange. For World Postcard Day 2025, I created two postcards that I...
by Ryukan | Sep 7, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Cascadia Poetry Festival
On a bluebird morning, we left the stunning beauty and stillness of Chinook Beach Park on Lake Washington to walk up to Kubota Gardens. A public park since 1987, the 20-acre gardens are the legacy of Japanese immigrant Fujitaro Kubota. His is a story of persistence...
by Ryukan | Sep 3, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Our end-of-the-fest open mic had many surprising moments, from impressions of a chicken’s “moancluck” to batshit poems written while drunk to an opportunity to send a postcard to the former First Lady of Iceland. With a continuum from beginners to...
