by Veronica Martinez | Feb 20, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Katie Sarah Zale, writer, co-editor of Winter in America (Again and facilitator of the CPL workshop Sam Hamill’s Narrow Road to the Interior, is currently writing the biography of Sam Hamill, poet and co-founder of Copper Canyon Press. Hamill’s work as a...
by Veronica Martinez | Feb 7, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Mycelium: Poetry of Connection published by postcard poet Maureen Kane Postcard poet Maureen Sandra Kane has published a new poetry collection, Mycelium: Poetry of Connection through Gray Matter Press. The collection is “an exploration of the human condition...
by Ryukan | Feb 5, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election was launched last night in Seattle University’s Sinegal 110. Co-sponsored by the Seattle U Philosophy Department, Chaired by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, the reading started with Dr. Wirth, the only non-poet in...
by Zach Charles | Feb 1, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
It is said of the poetry of Andrew Schelling that he is “locating language in watersheds and continental ridges, in rocks and plants. A poet of ancient texts and teachings, Schelling tracks the history of language and reads the world.” Not a moment too soon, either,...
by Zach Charles | Jan 31, 2025 | podcastb
This interview with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun was originally recorded in August of 2016. The conversation took place in the midst of Yuxwelptun Lets’lo:tseltun’s exhibition Unceded Territories, at the Museum of Anthropology, University of...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 28, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Join us in marking the publication of Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 with a reading from some of the contributing poets and editors. The reading will take place February 4, 2025, 7 P.M. PST at the Seattle University Sinegal Center for Science and...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 25, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF8 Friday Night Readings On Friday, November 1, 2024, we closed the first night of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival with readings by Daphne Marlatt, Robert Lashley and Fred Wah, with introductions by Matt Trease. You can now watch the FULL readings below with...
by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
On November 6, 2024, the day after the USAmerican presidential election, Katie Sarah Zale called me to see how I was doing and to ask what I thought Sam Hamill would do in response to the election. Sam would have called his poet friends and created an anthology. We...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 19, 2025 | News
Winter in America (Again Press Release by Catalina Cantu Poets from the United States and beyond respond to the 2024 Presidential election. The poems are rooted in a belief that the incoming administration will not relieve or heal us from our nation’s past: the...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 18, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Winter in America (Again Poets Respond to 2024 Election Winter in America (Again is a poetry anthology in response to the 2024 presidential election, with 8 editors including Paul Nelson, Katie Sarah Zale and Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. The anthology is published by...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog
Happy New Year from Cascadia Poetics Lab! Happy New Year! 2024 was a successful and enriching year for poetry and place in Cascadia! This year, we introduced new in-person and online programming that gathered community and encouraged mindful and intentional...
by Zach Charles | Jan 13, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
Mini-Forest Revolution by Hannah Lewis When I say the word infrastructure, what do you imagine? Huge concrete highways, towering steel skyscrapers, the city bus? These are things I picture, but after reading Mini-Forest Revolution by Hannah Lewis something greener is...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 13, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Thinkingwith: Writing Strategies for Reconnecting to Earth Workshop Next month, we will be welcoming poet, artist, teacher and astrologer Matt Trease as facilitator for another workshop, Thinkingwith: Writing Strategies for Reconnecting to Earth. This lab will focus...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 8, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Sam Hamill’s Narrow Road to the Interior Workshop Happy 2025! This year, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be expanding our workshop offerings and welcoming new workshop teachers! We are so excited to dive deeper into the foundational material of our organization. The...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 6, 2025 | CPL 2050
Zach Charles 24 Portraits at 24 Book Launch! Join us for a celebration of the publication of Zach Charles’ first poetry collection 24 Portraits at 24! Zach is a member of CPL’s Poetry Postcard Fest committee, Cascadia 2050, is Paul Nelson’s audio...