by Zach Charles | May 1, 2026 | CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
Part of the Cascadia 2050 mission is: to inspire artists and poets of the next generation to consider bioregionalism and intuitive poetic approach as a way to foster a more just and sustainable Cascadia by 2050. To this end, one of our goals is to interview people who...
by Ryukan | Apr 28, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated journalist in a Texas prison for women in Gatesville, where women on death row are also housed. Recently named a 2026-2028 Galaxy Changemaker Fellow, she serves as a Senior Writer and Editor for Solitary Watch and Lead Advisor for...
by Ryukan | Apr 20, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPL Board member Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is the editor of a new bilingual poetry anthology, Somos Ajolotes or We’re All Axolotles. That all living things are endangered species at this time feels accurate. To have my own work published with many fine Latinx...
by Zach Charles | Apr 18, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Aldon Lynn Nielsen says the time is right to say it straight, Gil Scott-Heron should be recognized as an important writer. As the George and Barbara Kelly Professor Emeritus of American Literature at Penn State University, specializing in, among other things, African...
by Zach Charles | Apr 9, 2026 | CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
Hello Postcarders, Bioregionalists, Poets, et.al, I am writing you today on behalf of Cascadia 2050 to invite you to participate in a special project honoring the 20th Poetry Postcard Festival. We hope you will be able to start your fest a little early and send us one...
by Ryukan | Apr 7, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime Bellingham, WA postcard poet CJ Prince has lost her battle with cancer. The news went out on her Facebook page via her Grandchild and Denny Stern forward us this note: CJ Prince who was an active postcard poet recently passed away and Suzanne Miller is...
by Ryukan | Apr 2, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
The Cascadia 2050 crew will continue the series of springtime Poetry Postcard Activations Saturday, April 18, from 11a – 1p at Kubota Garden, a jewel in the Rainier Beach neighborhood. We’ll get tour of the garden from a docent, have postcard collage...
by Zach Charles | Apr 1, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Open the anthology Women of the Beat Generation to page 256 and read the words of Brother Antoninus, William Everson, who said, “A series of women poets emerged in San Francisco who identified with the establish Beat Poets even as they challenged them on their...
by Ryukan | Mar 30, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Our next postcard activation is Wednesday, April 1 at 6pm at yəhaw̓, Two seasoned postcard poets, Zach Charles and your humble narrator will talk about the Poetry Postcard Fest and provide postcards and collage materials. yəhaw̓, Indigenous Creatives Collective is at...
by Ryukan | Mar 19, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
In partnership with the Rainier Beach Action Coalition, the Cascadia Poetics Lab is initiating a neighborhood arts roundtable to increase the visibility of arts & culture in Rainier Beach, to allow creatives to network, to make Rainier Beach a destination for arts...
by Ryukan | Mar 19, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Rain Shadow Poetics Lab Society is building on the momentum of last August’s events in Cumberland, BC with a workshop by Sharon Thesen and readings by bioregional poets Lorin Medley, Scott Lawrance and Lorraine Martinuik. All events happening April 18 on...
by Zach Charles | Mar 19, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On the Way to Kluusms is the first poetry chapbook to be published by Watershed Press, a bioregional press based in Seattle, but with strong connections to Vancouver Island. The author is Lorin Medley, whose poetry has been published in anthologies like Winter in...
by Ryukan | Mar 12, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Two Cascadian Zen poets from central Cascadia are in Seattle, Friday, March 20, 2026, at 6:30 at Arundel Books. You can listen to our 2024 interview with Robert Michael Pyle here. Both poets are deeply connected to place and have been writing for a long time. Arundel...
by Ryukan | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
Dear CPL Fan. I trust you & yours are well in these chaotic times. When I read that Chinese astrology refers to The Year of the Fire Horse (2026) and the Year of the Fire Goat (2027) as the Red Horse and Red Goat CALAMITY, I knew we were in for turbulence, but...
by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 3, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Watch A Poet, directed by Columbian director Simón Mesa Soto, THIS WEEKEND at SIFF Film Center in Seattle! We are grateful to have received a coupon code for Cascadia Poetics Lab supporters to view A Poet March 6-9, 2026. CLICK HERE to buy a movie ticket, and enter...
