by Veronica Martinez | Nov 25, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
Zach Charles releases first book of poetry, 24 Portraits at 24! Cascadia Poetics Lab volunteer and audio assistant Zach Charles has released their first book of poetry, 24 Portraits at 24, through Carbonation Press! The description of the book comes from Carbonation...
by Veronica Martinez | Nov 24, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Support Cascadia Poetics Lab! November 1-3, 2024, we hosted a beautiful 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival at the Hugo House, Neukom Vivarium and Spring Street Center in Seattle. Cascadia Poetry Festival 8 featured multiple prominent poets and academics from throughout the...
by Zach Charles | Nov 23, 2024 | Blog, podcast, podcastb
Wanda Coleman, born in Los Angeles, was an award-winning poet, author, and former scriptwriter. She wrote more than 20 books across forms, from her first poetry chapbook Art in the Court of the Blue Fag, published by Black Sparrow Press in 1977, to Heavy...
by Veronica Martinez | Nov 17, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Celebrate CPL on Giving Tuesday Dec. 3! We thank all participants and attendees at the recent 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival. We hope to stage this at the Hugo House annually for years to come. Videos and photos from the festival will be shared on the Cascadia Poetics...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We will begin the process of documenting and reporting on all of the developments from the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on this blog in the next few weeks and months, including video of as much of the program as possible. In the meantime, huge thanks to all the...
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...