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...
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...
