by Veronica Martinez | May 16, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Join us in the CPL Zoom room on Wednesday, May 21, from 6-7:30pm PST for a panel on spontaneous composition, community building, and how postcard poems can bring those two things together! In this panel/workshop, we will be partnering with Free Time, a “volunteer...
by Veronica Martinez | May 12, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
May 18 is Cascadia Day and the anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. On Cascadia Day, we celebrate the Cascadia bioregion in all of its breathtaking beauty, dynamism and ferocity, and we take the time to spread awareness of bioregionalism. Cascadia BioFi...
by Veronica Martinez | May 11, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
THANK YOU from the bottom our hearts for donating to Cascadia Poetics Lab for GIVE BIG 2025! With your help, we were able to raise $5,987 to assist in funding our efforts to build capacity and expand our programming. Cascadia Poetics Lab is entering a new era as an...
by Veronica Martinez | May 6, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Postcard Poet Denny Stern: Taiwan Etudes Series Visiting Taipei in March we stumbled upon a post card intensive solo exhibit by Taiwanese artist Apex Lin, Pang-Soong. I estimated there to be between 1700 & 1800 hand drawn and written postcards by the artist...
by Veronica Martinez | May 5, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
In March of 2025, Cascadia Poetics Lab founding director Paul E. Nelson was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator at Jackson High School in Everett and Cristo Rey High School in Seattle, leading students in literary and bioregionalist discussions and spontaneous...
by Veronica Martinez | May 2, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Support Cascadia Poetics Lab and Poetry Postcard Fest May 6-7 Thank you for being a postcard poet! We are gearing up for another summer of postcards and postcard events, more information on the way! A lot of tireless work goes into these events, and it’s always...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 30, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF committee member Zach Charles: I recently had the privilege and honor to interview Paul E Nelson, Founder of the Cascadia Poetics Lab and co-founder of the Poetry Postcard Fest with Lana Ayers, about the Postcard Fest. Our conversation ranged from cards he...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 30, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadian Zen Vol. II at the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival On November 2, 2024, we celebrated the publication of Cascadian Zen Vol. II by Watershed Press at the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a reading from the anthology! Featured readers included Carletta...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 28, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Give Big to Cascadia Poetics Lab May 6-7! Celebrate Give Big 2025 by donating to Cascadia Poetics Lab! Cascadia Poetics Lab was established in 1993 by founding director Paul E. Nelson, and has provided poetic and bioregional programming to Seattle, the Cascadia...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 28, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Happy spring! We’re gearing up for another exciting summer of postcard poetry, and have some great opportunities for connecting with postcard poets and spreading the love for postcard poetry soon! Postcards at Walk the Block On May 24, 2025 from 11 AM – 6...
by Roberta Hoffman | Apr 26, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics LAB Expresses Appreciation to 4Culture for Doors Open Sustained Support Funding Grant “It’s a home run for culture in this country….This is going to be completely transformational, as Washington DC continues to slide into chaos, King County is taking...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 21, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF Committee member Ina Roy-Faderman: in the northern hemisphere, we’re getting more sunshine. while Tennyson (bless him)* described spring as the season where young men’s interests “lightly turns to thoughts of love,” for many of us, thoughts turn to poetry...
by Zach Charles | Apr 18, 2025 | podcastb
To go back 30 years in one’s writing is an exercise fraught with the possibility that the material is very dated, but this book, Cloudhand, Clenched Fist, by Rhea Miller, is a large exception. Case in point a passage on page 22: The more unstable a culture or...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 13, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Join us for upcoming Winter in America (Again events in Cascadia and beyond! Inter Act Spoken Word Open Mic Inter Act Spoken Word Open Mic at Satori Arts815 Almar Ave Unit 9, Santa Cruz, CA 95060APRIL 15, 2025. 7- 9 PM PST.Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Veronica...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 8, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Launch Party for The Outside by Matt Trease, Hosted by the Theosophical Society Seattle Library Join us on April 12, 2025 at 5 P.M. PST at the Theosophical Society Library (717 Broadway E) as Venus gets ready to go direct in Pisces for a special release reading of...
