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...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 2, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest poet Eleanor Keisman is publishing a climate fiction novella entitled New Animal through Broken Tribe Press. Congratulations Eleanor! “It’s the year 2081, and the world is in crisis. Wildfires, famine, and disease threaten every living...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 2, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
On August 9, 2025 from 12-2 PM MST, Winter in America (Again co-editors Paul E. Nelson, allia abdullah-matta, Katie Sarah Zale and Roxi Power will be hosting a virtual workshop entitled “Your Blues Ain’t Mine” in collaboration with the Arizona State...
by Zach Charles | Jul 30, 2025 | podcastb
Arthur Waley, Gary Snyder, Burton Watson and Red Pine are among the legendary translators who have taken on the work of T’ang Dynasty hermit poet Han Shan aka: Cold Mountain. Or make that poets from perhaps before the T’ang Dynasty, as Peter Levitt points out in a new...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jul 24, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
We’re in the thick of it now! The Poetry Postcard Fest has gotten off to a great start, and we’re starting to see the postcards roll in- but for some this is the exact moment when writers block sets in, when the excitement of starting is over and we become unsure if...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jul 19, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
19th Poetry Postcard Fest Statistics Registration for the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest is now closed! We hope all participants have enjoyed the first couple weeks of this summer’s postcard poetry season! We are grateful to be able to foster this community of poets...
by Zach Charles | Jul 17, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
The outrages, for any person of conscience in the United States in the trump 2.0 era, almost come hourly. Many warned of a constitutional crisis were we to find ourselves in this situation. Disappearing non-violent citizens and tourists to for-profit gulags while key...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jul 14, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
On July 13, 2025, Cascadia Poetics Lab hosted a postcard collage table at the Olympic Sculpture Park. 60 Seattle residents and park goers joined us in making postcard collages and writing poetry on postcards to send to loved ones! Thank you so much to the Olympic...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jul 14, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Winter in America (Again Tour! Last week, the Winter in America (Again editors and contributors embarked on a mini book tour of Western Washington. Paul Nelson was joined by Roxi Power from California, allia abdullah-matta from New York, and Katie Sarah Zale from...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jul 13, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
PPF Lists! Thank you to everyone that registered for the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest. REGISTRATION FOR PPF 2025 IS NOW CLOSED. We understand that some lists had mistakes, and we appreciate your patience as we readjust some lists and send them out in the next week. If...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jul 2, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadian Zen Book Event in Mendocino County, Northern California From Theresa Whitehill, event organizer: Ukiah poets and poetry scholars Theresa Whitehill, Armand Brint, Dan Barth, Michael Riedell, and Susan Baird will read a selection of poetry and other writings...
