by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 15, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Looking for inspiration to write poetry post-PPF? Consider Levertov’s Words Left in Your Pocket Exercise Read Denise Levertov’s poem “September 1961” below, paying extra attention to the lines regarding the death of predecessor poets, three (Ezra Pound, William Carlos...
by Zach Charles | Sep 13, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
What a great way to entice someone to read a book: “Like a prize-fighter boxing over his weight, Stephan Torre has long made his home in the wilderness, negotiating environments that are hostile, inhospitable and often dangerous. Places where a neighbor might...
by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 13, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics Lab 2024 Annual Report Our 2024 report outlining Cascadia Poetics Lab’s major accomplishments, fundraising and organizational planning, financials, sponsors and more is now available for public viewing! CLICK HERE to learn all about Cascadia...
by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 12, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From postcard poet Drew Myron: After a steady stream of arrivals, my mailbox is now empty. I just completed the annual Poetry Postcard Fest, an organized commitment to write and mail poems on postcards to 32 strangers. Now in its 18th year, the event drew nearly 500...
by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 12, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Announcing the 1st Annual Charles Potts Poetry Award! The Charles Potts Poetry Award is a new award that will yearly present a writer with the resources to publish their first book of poetry. From the Charles Potts Poetry Award website: The criteria is simple. It must...
by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 9, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From postcard poet Dr. Amy L. Friedman: Some time before I knew I’d be coming to Japan I signed up for the 2025 Cascadia Poetics Lab Poetry Postcard Fest. It was founded by poets Paul E. Nelson and Lana Ayers in 2007, and today the Lab runs online writing workshops,...
by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 5, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics Lab is excited to share that we are a recipient of a 2025 Community Accelerator Grant Fund by Allen Family Philanthropies and awarded by Artsfund! This gift will accelerate our organization’s efforts in hosting events focused on the poetics of place,...
by Zach Charles | Sep 5, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Join us on Zoom on Saturday, September 6 for the Poetry Postcard Fest ’25 Wrap Up ZoomParty. We will meet at 2 pm PST and chat for 2 hours about our experiences this summer in the Fest, share some of our favorite cards we received, and talk about ways to keep...
by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 4, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Now that the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest is finished, we still have some writing exercises for postcard poets to continue developing your poetic practice. Whether your preparing for the 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest or would just like to continue the poetry writing momentum...
by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 1, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics Lab Fall 2025 Workshops We hope everyone had a rejuvenating and sunny summer! Fall is fast approaching, which means our fall 2025 workshops are beginning soon! Registration is still available for all workshops. Discounts are available to CPL...
by Roberta Hoffman | Sep 1, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Register for PPF 2026! Registration for the 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest is open NOW! CLICK HERE to register for next year’s summer of postcard poetry. Thank you so much to every postcard poet that participated this year! Thank you to the PPF committee: Ina...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 31, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Submit to Winter in America (Still We invite poets and artists to contribute to the Winter in America (Again sequel anthology Winter in America (Still, edited by Paul E. Nelson, Katie Sarah Zale, Roxi Power and allia abdullah-matta and published by Carbonation Press....
by Roberta Hoffman | 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 Roberta Hoffman | 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 Zach Charles | Aug 27, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On the morning of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Habib and Paul Nelson awoke before 6A and were hiking with full packs up to “Jack’s Shack.” But after an hour, maybe less, they knew they were not going to make it with those heavy packs. They dropped them and took...
