by Veronica Martinez | Sep 19, 2024 | News
Cascadia Poetics Lab to Host 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival By Veronica Martinez, Administrative Assistant, Cascadia Poetics Lab Celebrate the poetry of the bioregion at the Cascadia Poetics Lab’s 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival! From November 1-3, 2024, Seattle-based...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 10, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
How Sherri Olson organizes her postcards From PPF participant Sherri Olson: Nan’s cute binder made me think I should share my solution. Years ago at a library conference, an artist, who worked as a bookbinder while in art school, showed us how to make these recycled...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 3, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Register for Fall 2024 Workshops! Registration for Cascadia Poetics Lab Fall 2024 workshops is OPEN NOW! This fall, we welcome Matt Trease, poet and CPL board member, as a workshop instructor! The workshop offerings are as follows: Life as Rehearsal for the Poem,...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 3, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF8 at the Richard Hugo House! This year, we are excited to be working with fellow Seattle literary arts organization The Richard Hugo House to host the main day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival, Saturday, November 2, 2024. We are planning two panel discussions,...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 1, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Register now for Cascadia Poetry Festival 8! The 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival will be held November 1-3, 2024 at the Richard Hugo House, Spring Street Center and Newkam Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park. The festival will be a celebration of the release of...
by Ryukan | Sep 1, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Barry McKinnon died in Prince George, BC, on October 30, 2023. Your humble narrator drove to Prince George in July 2015 to conduct an interview with one of the most underrated Cascadian poets ever. A man who, in Gary Snyder’s words, “stayed put and watched...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 1, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Early bird registration for PPF 2025 is open now! We sincerely hope every postcard poet had an enjoyable 2024 Poetry Postcard Fest. Early bird registration for the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest is open NOW! Register now to take advantage of a lower registration price and...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 30, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF Committee member Sally Hedges-Blanquez: It’s not September, but it feels like Fall. The cooler air, the shorter days. My cards have been sent, but each day I find myself rereading cards I’ve received as well as looking forward to the mail. This...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 23, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF participant Nan Jackson: After sending my 31st postcard (32 counting the extra one to Peggy Miller’s new address), I put together this binder. It’s been fun, and I have this memento to look back on. We hope everyone is having a wonderful PPF 2024!...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 17, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Kim Tedrow, PPF Participant: I first participated in the Poetry Postcard Fest in 2019. I’m also a mixed-media artist with an embarrassing hoard of rubber stamps, and I hand stamp all of my postcards. In 2019 I was working two jobs – one at Target. I...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 14, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
DaySong 2024 on September 1 The DaySong is a poem written in a 24 hour period (or the 16 or so hours you’re awake during a 24 hour period). The DaySong was originally envisioned as an attempt to broaden the compositional range of the postcard poet, from the 12-14...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 12, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
August 26 Cascadian Zen on Quadra Island A launch of Cascadian Zen Volume One with readings by Jan Zwicky, Robert Bringhurst, Paul Nelson, Jason Wirth, and Adelia MacWilliam. DATE: August 26, 2024 TIME: 7-9 PMLOCATION: Community Hall970 West RoadQuadra Island,...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 10, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF Committee Member Zach Charles: Yet again, while reflecting on the Poetry Postcard Fest, I am drawn to the way the project can reveal the power of the accident. This year, unrelated to the Fest, I had ordered a book called The Miracle of Trees, by Olavi...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 9, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Watershed Press celebrates the Cumberland launch of Cascadian Zen Volume I August 24 & 25, featuring talks by poets, philosphers, and an indigenous elder, along with poetry readings and a poetry workshop. A project of the Cascadia Poetics LAB. DATE &...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 8, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This Fest is For the Birds From PPF committee member Margaret Lee: I arose this morning before the full moon had set. Driving west and then south en route to Deep Fork, my shifting vantage showed me changing views of the silver disk stroked by low clouds. By the time...
