by Veronica Martinez | Oct 31, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF8 Sunday Schedule The 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival begins TOMORROW! We can’t wait to celebrate poetry and place in Cascadia with everyone! Gold Passes are still available, so if haven’t registered yet, or if you know someone that would be interested in...
by Zach Charles | Oct 31, 2024 | Blog, podcast, podcastb
“The Beat Generation is one of the most formidable literary movements of the mid-to late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its innovative connections to emerging postmodernisms—collapsing boundaries among genres such as fiction, verse, and memoir; between...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 30, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF8 Saturday Breakout Sessions On Saturday, Nov. 2 from 12-2, Cascadia Poetry Festival participants will get to participate in multiple breakout sessions at the Hugo House! During this time, organizations from Seattle and the Cascadia bioregion will also be selling...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 29, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Unfiltered, the CPF8 After Party! On Saturday, Nov 2 at 10 PM PDT, the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival afterparty Cascadia Unfiltered will be hosted by poets Greg Bem and Nadine Maestas! The party will feature readings from 18 incredible Cascadian poets,...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 29, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Share your postcard poems for a PPF certificate! Thank you so much to every postcard poet that has already shared their postcard art and poems! Postcard poets that share 3 images of their postcard art with the accompanying poems get a certificate as a thank you for...
by Ryukan | Oct 29, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Postcard poet Richard Osler died last night. Huge thanks to all postcard poets who wrote & sent a postcard poem to this fine human and poet. He accepted death like no one I have ever known. A book, his last love letter to life entitled What Holiness Will I Bring,...
by Zach Charles | Oct 27, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Dr. Rudolph Rÿser was the founder and board chair emeritus of the Center for World Indigenous Studies. This month, in honor of World Indigenous Peoples Day, Cascadian Prophets is bringing back this December, 2003 interview with him, in which he discusses the...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 25, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Get to the know the CPF8 Saturday panelists! The 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival is right around the corner! We are so excited to be hosting an incredible lineup of poets, artists and academics Nov. 1-3 in Seattle! Register for a Gold Pass now! Saturday, November 2 is...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 24, 2024 | News
Greg Bem Reviews Cascadian Zen Vol. I for Ravens Chronicle Press By Greg Bem for Ravens Chronicle Press: In Fall of 2023, the world was gifted with a new type of anthology, an immense type of anthology, and the first in a series of multiple anthologies covering, or...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 21, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF8 Friday Night Featured Poets! The 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival is coming soon, on Nov. 1-3! We are so excited to celebrate poetry in Cascadia with everyone! If you have not registered yet, we have multiple registration options available, along with volunteer...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 20, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF committee member Ina Roy-Faderman: At the start of every autumn, I process my summer’s poetry postcard infusion. This year’s Fest was really weird for me. I was living in a tiny apartment across the country from my home and my mail. The postcards I was...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 10, 2024 | News
Cascadia Poetics Lab in High Country News On September 30, 2024, High Country News published the article “Remembering Colleen McElroy, the ‘literary North Star’ of the Pacific Northwest,” written by Robert Lashley. In the article, Cascadia...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 8, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
CPL’s Youth Committee to Host first Poetry event on October 18! The Cascadia Poetics Lab is happy to announce the creation of the Youth Committee, a committee designed to incorporate young, up-and-coming Cascadian poets into CPL’s programming that will...
by Ryukan | Oct 1, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
“A few months after the entry of the United States into World War II, the Government of the United States without a shred of evidence of misconduct or disloyalty…” arrested 120,000 West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry and put them into concentration camps. I...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 19, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Share your PPF postcard poems! Thank you so much for another incredible, record-breaking Poetry Postcard Fest! We’d like to give you the opportunity to share your 2024 postcard poetry with the Cascadia Poetics Lab community! If you’d like, click the link...
