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...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 19, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry From Journalism Exercise The news is chaotic and constant these days, but this week we bring you an exercise that can help you harness it for your poetry this week- straight from one of our 2024 LifeAs Rehearsal For the Poem classes: If you have never written...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 15, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
To AI or Not to AI? (Definitely not.) From Postcard Poet Kathy Paul: I’ve loved participating in the summer Poetry Postcard Fest since I first heard about it in 2014 or 2015. I’ve introduced several friends to the Fest, and they love it, too. Every year, we watch our...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 7, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Last week we brought you some inspiration from our 2024 Life As Rehearsal For the Poem and Poetics As Cosmology course, and this week we have something from a course from earlier this year to help get your creativity flowing and your neurons firing during and after...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 6, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
9th Cascadia Poetry Festival Oct. 10-12 What does it mean to be here? How does one connect more deeply to a place, and how does this manifest in Cascadia? How can we, as poets, artists and creatives, respond to and interact with a country spiraling into...
by Zach Charles | Aug 5, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
The 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival is happening October 10-12th, 2025 at the Rainier Beach Community Club. One of the featured poets is Sharon Thesen, a legendary B.C. poet who considers herself a “Cascadian poet.” She says poetry is “a bit off on an...
