by Roberta Hoffman | Jul 2, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Happy postcard season! Postcard lists go out this Friday, July 4! If you have already confirmed your mailing address with us, you are good to go! If you have NOT confirmed your address, please check your email for a message from us. If you have not gotten an email...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 28, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Join us for another summer Poetry Postcard Fest event! On July 13, 2025 from 11 AM-3 PM PST, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be tabling at the Olympic Sculpture Park, leading the public in postcard collage making and spreading the love for postcard poetry. DATE: July 13,...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 28, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Join us to celebrate Winter in America (Again with a mini-tour around Western Washington! Co-editors Paul Nelson and Katie Sarah Zale will be joined by Roxi Power of California and Allia Abdullah-Matta of New York, along with multiple contributors! Learn more about...
by Ryukan | Jun 22, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
It was Matt Trease who turned my attention to an interview that Eileen Myles gave in 2015 in which she said: There is still a lot of power built up around mainstream poetry. People are afraid to give America anything but comfort. It’s like an ad for guilt. Even...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 21, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Photo: Source Nasa Earth Observatory – Low-Pressure System over Northwestern Pacific by David McCloskey Click here to link to nullschool.net visualization of global weather conditions: earth.nullschool.net: earth view current, wind, surface Water in all its...
by Ryukan | Jun 21, 2025 | Blog
For Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book workshop attendees, please use the comment section to ask Michael questions or comment on class topics. Thank you for being part of this work. See also H.D.’s...
by Roberta Hoffman | 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 Roberta Hoffman | 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at Elliott Bay Book Company for a discussion on The Buddhist Years: Collected Writings, a volume of “previously unpublished...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 Roberta Hoffman | 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 Roberta Hoffman | 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 Roberta Hoffman | 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 Roberta Hoffman | 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 Roberta Hoffman | 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 Roberta Hoffman | 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 Roberta Hoffman | 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...
