by Zach Charles | Apr 1, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb, Poetry Postcard Fest
If you were to visit cascadiapoeticslab.org and click to the Poetry Postcard Fest page, you’d find the following blurb. “The Poetry Postcard Fest is an annual 56 day experiment in spontaneity and community building. This literary event is a self-guided workshop in...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 1, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
On March 27, 2025, Winter in America (Again was featured at an off-site AWP reading at Cal State Los Angeles! Co-editors Paul Nelson, Roxi Power and Katie Sarah Zale were joined by readers Dane Cervine, Julia Chiapella, Susanne Dyckman, JP Howard, Holly Hughes, Robert...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 18, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
On the second day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on Saturday, November 2, 2024 we continued with a panel exploring Wilson’s Bowl and the work of Phyllis Webb. The panel featured poets and educators Stephen Collis, Daphne Marlatt and Fred Wah, moderated by...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 17, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF Committee member Judy Kleinberg: If you’ve ever changed your name, you will appreciate how difficult it is to get rid of your previous name. The Poetry Postcard Fest has been around since 2007, when Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers devised a plan for a month-long...
by Zach Charles | Mar 16, 2025 | CPL 2050
On Wednesday, February 26, I had a great time at Baba Yaga in Pioneer Square, Seattle celebrating the launch of Disposable Parts second edition. It was incredibly cool to participate as a vendor alongside many different artists. Painters of multiple varieties, resin...
by Zach Charles | Mar 12, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
I am grateful today to bring you an interview with Anne Tardos on Cascadian Prophets, reading from and speaking about her newest book: The Always Already Absent Present. The number 7, according to one numerologist, is both deep and wise, not satisfied with simple...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 10, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
On March 27, 2025 join us in Los Angeles for an off-site AWP conference event for Winter in America (Again! Join poets Rodrigo Toscano, Elizabeth Robinson, Susanne Dyckman, Mark Scroggins, Dana Teen Lomax, Dion O’Reilly, Holly Hughes, Matt Trease and more for our gala...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 10, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF Committee Member Margaret Lee: Last year, my theme for the Fest was Postcards from Where I Have Never Been. I was tired of reality and ready for fiction. My 31 cards named unfamiliar or imagined places. Did I connect the picture on the front to the poem on...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 8, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Nature Talk by Flávia Rocha Release Event On February 23, 2025, Carbonation Press, led by Greg Bem, hosted a release event for their recent publication Nature Talk by Brazilian poet, editor and journalist Flávia Rocha. The release event and reading was hosted via...
by Zach Charles | Mar 8, 2025 | CPL 2050
On Sunday, 23 February, 2025, Brazilian poet Flávia Rocha launched her new book, Nature Talk, published by Carbonation Press, on Zoom with poets and an audience from around the world. I was grateful to participate with other Carbornation Press authors, reading poetry...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 4, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
On February 21, 2025, Zach Charles and I (Veronica Martinez) visited Seattle University to talk about Cascadia 2050, CPL’s youth initiative, to one of Professor Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs’ poetry courses. The class had about 20 undergraduates attending. We...
by Zach Charles | Feb 28, 2025 | podcastb
On 28 August, 2014, your humble narrator had the honor of conducting an interview with Jewell James of the Lummi Nation, Master Carver and Director of the Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office with the Lummi Nation. We recorded our interview at St. Mark’s Cathedral...
by Veronica Martinez | Feb 25, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We opened our second day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on Saturday, November 2, 2024 with a panel entitled “Issei Zen & Other Migrations.” The panel explores the work of writers that experienced the Japanese internment camps in America and the...
by Veronica Martinez | Feb 23, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The season for postcards is approaching, and Cascadia Poetics Lab needs your support for another year of postcards and poetry! The Poetry Postcard Fest is 56-day exercise in spontaneous poetry composition and a beautiful opportunity to exchange poetry and community...
by Zach Charles | Feb 22, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
On Tuesday, 4 February 2025, I was honored to take part in the first public reading of Winter in America (Again. This anthology, published by Carbonation Press and edited by Katie Sarah Zale, Paul E Nelson, Roxie Power, alia abdulla-matta, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs,...
