by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 11, 2024 | News
Cascadian Zen Reading at Village Books in Bellingham for Spring 2024 Nature of Writing Speaker Series From Village Books and North Cascades Institute:”Discover your next great read with this series of presentations by authors, poets, artists and naturalists...
by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 8, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poems for my mother by postcard poet Allegra Brucker Poetry Postcard Festival veteran Allegra Brucker shared this beautiful video Poems for my mother, a piece made by transforming an old board book with gelli printed papers and their poems. Watch and listen below as...
by Ryukan | Feb 27, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
Tessa Hulls and I met when she donated a poster for the 2013 edition of the Allen Ginsberg Open Mic Poetry marathon. On February 20, 2024 I caught up with her on Zoom to discuss her first book, a graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts. What a joy it was to reconnect with...
by Roberta Hoffman | Feb 23, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Cascadian Prophets Podcast Needs Support! Since 1993, Paul Nelson and Cascadia Poetics Lab have produced over 700 hours of interview programming with legendary poets, artists, authors, activists and more! The Cascadian Prophets Podcast is an important aspect of...
by Ryukan | Feb 19, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
From Adelia MacWilliam, Board Member, Cascadia Poetics Lab: Anyone writing poetry today has been influenced by Ezra Pound’s work whether they have read him or not. I have always been a fan of Pound’s much-anthologized translations in his book Cathay, important because...
by Roberta Hoffman | Feb 19, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Help Support Cascadia Poetics Lab! Cascadia Poetics Lab is dedicated to following our mission of empowering people to practice poetry and deepen connections to place, self, and the present moment. In our 30 years as a nonprofit, we have continued to follow this...
by Roberta Hoffman | Feb 18, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Show us your favorite postcard poems! The Poetry Postcard Fest team has established a NEW Instagram account for all things PPF, and we need your help to spread the love for PPF! We are asking past Poetry Postcard participants to send 3-5 images of your favorite...
by Roberta Hoffman | Feb 14, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Spring 2024 workshop registration is open NOW! Cascadia Poetics Lab founder Paul E. Nelson will be hosting a five week online spring workshop, Life as Rehearsal for the Poem, exploring passages in Cascadian Zen Vol. I Basket 2: Empty Bowl. Participate in reading and...
by Roberta Hoffman | Feb 10, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
30 years of Cascadia Poetics Lab! On Friday, February 2, 2024, Cascadia Poetics Lab hosted a celebration for our 30th anniversary as a nonprofit at the Columbia City Gallery in Seattle, WA! We also celebrated the publication of our second collection of transcribed...
by Roberta Hoffman | Feb 8, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Share your love for PPF! The Poetry Postcard Fest team has established a NEW Instagram account for all things PPF, and we need your help to spread the love for PPF! We are asking past Poetry Postcard participants to send an approximately 30 second video of yourself...
by Roberta Hoffman | Feb 4, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
WATCH Andrew Schelling teach The Cantos by Ezra Pound! CPL has teamed up with poet, translator and educator Andrew Schelling to host a workshop exploring The Cantos by Ezra Pound. This Zoom workshop, beginning in November of 2023, has been an immersive dive into the...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It may have taken 60 years, deaths of her sister and mother and a season of catastrophic forest fires to bring it out, but Roxi Power has a book of poems and it is entitled The Songs That Objects Would Sing. A poet, performer and labor activist, a professor at the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 28, 2024 | News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 15, 2024Contact: Paul E. Nelson pen@cascadiapoeticslab.org Cascadia Poetics Lab Celebrates 30th Anniversary By Veronica Martinez, Cascadia Poetics Lab Administrative Assistant Seattle-based poetry nonprofit Cascadia Poetics Lab is...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 28, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Celebrate 30 years of Cascadia Poetics Lab with us! Celebrate 30 years of Cascadia Poetics Lab and the launch of Cascadian Prophets, a collection of CPL founder Paul Nelson’s interviews with Cascadian poets, artists and scholars from 1999-2023, edited by...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 27, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
by David McCloskey There’s both a Western Wall and an Eastern Wall marking Cascadia’s boundaries…. The Western Wall. Cascadia rises as a great flying arc of landscapes perched on the verge of Mountains and the Sea, curving around the northeast section of the Pacific...
