by Veronica Martinez | Jun 17, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
PPF Address Verification THIS SUNDAY! We are changing our process for verifying we have the correct mailing address and information for PPF participants. Rather than sending a draft list, PPF registrants will receive an email from us JUNE 22, 2025 asking you to...
by Veronica Martinez | Jun 17, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Jack Kerouac and Buddhism at Elliott Bay Book Company Join CPL friends and Beat Generation scholars Jim Jones and Charles Shuttleworth at Elliott Bay Book Company for a discussion on The Buddhist Years: Collected Writings, a volume of “previously unpublished...
by Veronica Martinez | Jun 14, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
On Sunday November 3, 2024, we opened the last day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a reading inside Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, WA. Gathering around the majestic 60 foot-long nurse log, we enjoyed readings by Robert Michael Pyle,...
by Veronica Martinez | Jun 12, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
This past Wednesday, we hosted a workshop for donors of the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest, where Paul Nelson provided guidance for having a successful postcard fest and led the group in generative assignments to prepare for a summer of spontaneous composition! You can now...
by Veronica Martinez | Jun 9, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Yesterday, Sunday June 8, we hosted our 2nd Postcards from Mapes Creek event at Be’er Sheva Park in Rainier Beach. Although the weather was a surprising 87 degrees, we set up a potluck and postcard table under multiple canopies and relaxed in the shade while...
by Veronica Martinez | Jun 6, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF committee member Margaret Lee: I live in Tulsa on Route 66, where postcards are easy to find. You have seen the kind I mean: that map of the U.S. with a bold red line connecting Chicago to Los Angeles and a white shield with “66” in bold numbers. Or photos of...
by Veronica Martinez | Jun 1, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics Lab in Cumberland On August 22-24, 2025, Cascadia Poetics Lab’s sister organization Rain Shadow Poetics Lab is hosting Language and the Land, a multi-day poetry festival in Cumberland, B.C.! Rainshadow Poetics Lab is our Canadian connection...
by Veronica Martinez | Jun 1, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
PPF Workshop for Donors! Postcard season is coming up soon! As a thank you to our dedicated postcard poets and generous donors, we are hosting an online workshop for supporters of the Poetry Postcard Fest that donate $10 or more with their PPF registration. In this...
by Veronica Martinez | May 30, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
PPF 2025 Zoom Open House On Wednesday, May 28, we hosted an open house via Zoom to talk all things Poetry Postcard Fest! Paul and I were joined by PPF committee members Ina Roy-Faderman, Zach Charles and Sally Hedges-Blanquez, along with longtime postcard poets Tim...
by Veronica Martinez | May 29, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF committee member Sally Hedges-Blanquez: Where Do You Find Postcards? Your home: During Covid lockdown I made postcards from cereal and cracker boxes. Costco: I get a couple poster board dividers that are found between the stacks of toilet paper or paper...
by Ryukan | May 29, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Postcards from Mapes Creek on June 8! Join us on June 8, 2025 from 4-7 PM at Mapes Creek for a community poetry postcard gathering! At the mouth of Mapes Creek, we will gather with a postcard collage table, food and an open mic for reading postcard poems. This is a...
by Ryukan | May 22, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
From Judy Kleinberg: We had an excellent discussion of writing to incarcerated people last night in the Zoom Room. Hosted by Zach Charles and featuring Betty King of Bisbee, Arizona, Matt Trease of the CPL board, Katie Sarah Zale, who is a poet and teacher who works...
by Ryukan | May 20, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Allen Ginsberg earned $701 dollars in 1956 from Pacific Greyhound Lines and yet he had plenty of time to dedicate to his true calling, that of poet and cutural activist unlike few poets of the 20th century. Why is that? The cost of living in USAmerica in 1956 had an...
by Veronica Martinez | May 19, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Postcards from Mapes Creek on June 8! Join us on June 8, 2025 from 4-7 PM at Mapes Creek for a community poetry postcard gathering! At the mouth of Mapes Creek, we will gather with a postcard collage table, food and an open mic for reading postcard poems. This is a...
by Veronica Martinez | May 19, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Seattle author, illustrator and adventurer Tessa Hulls has won a Pulitzer Prize for her graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts! The memoir dives into 3 generations of Hull’s matrilineal history, which includes fact-finding trips to the People’s Republic of China and a...
