by Zach Charles | Jan 19, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, everybody. I am writing to you today from an intersection of many identities, several of which I think bear presentation on a day like today in a time like the one we find ourselves currently confronted with. I am writing to you as a...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 16, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
January 2 & 3, 2026, Cascadia Poetics Lab hosted a retreat for the CPL board and key volunteers at the home of board member Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. On January 2, we hosted a potluck gathering for for the board, volunteers, friends and family in celebration...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 13, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
What Are You Of? We want to share exercises for you to continue to practice poetry in mythic ways outside of workshops and the Poetry Postcard Fest! Get to the roots of who you are, where you’re from and where you’re going with the What Are You Of...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 12, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
In wake of the death of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year old poet, wife and mother shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis last week, poet Cornelius Eady has written a poem in her memory, titled “Renee Nicole Good is Murdered.” The poem begins: Up rides the...
by Ryukan | Jan 10, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
From Leopoldo Seguel, the host and producer of Poetry Bridge at C& P Coffee Company in West Seattle: Hello PoetryBridge community, This coming Wednesday at C&P Coffee in West Seattle, January 7th from 6-8 PM (PST), my good friend and often time...
by Ryukan | Jan 9, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Seattle University Philosophy Department presents Red Pine and Andrew Schelling Poetry Reading: Translations from Classical Chinese and Sanskrit Tuesday, February 17, at 6 pm in the Rolfe Room on the campus of Seattle University Spend an evening with two of the...
by Ryukan | Jan 9, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
(From Greg Bem) Hey folks. Given the nature of the book I thought you would appreciate knowing that: Foray for The Arts in Spokane will be holding a poetry memorial for Renee Good this coming Tuesday on the Spokane River at 7pm. It will feature statements of love,...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 5, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Poetics of Cascadian Land and Water with Harold Rhenisch Our new workshop, The Poetics of Cascadian Land and Water with Harold Rhenisch, begins THIS SATURDAY, January 10! Learn about the origins of Cascadian language through this series of workshops, expanding on...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 5, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Zoom Launch for Say It Recording Deer Mountain Pages will be hosting a launch of a recording of their most recent publication, Say It by Jan Zwicky. The recording features Jan Zwicky and Garth Martens, and was inspired by a public reading the two did together in...
by Ryukan | Jan 2, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On January 1, 2026, a 34-year-old, immigrant, Muslim, democratic socialist mayor was sworn in to run the largest city in the United States. When asked by the Nation magazine if this unlikely event might tell us about what is possible in American politics, Mayor Zohran...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 1, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Happy New Year from Cascadia Poetics Lab! Happy New Year! Thank you for another successful and enriching year for poetry and place in Cascadia! This year, we introduced new in-person and online programming that gathered community and encouraged mindful and intentional...
by Zach Charles | Jan 1, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
In this edition of Cascadian Prophets, Trevor Carolan talks about Making Waves. If artists are the antennae of the race, then the poets and writers of British Columbia are onto something that the general populace may be ready to recognize and act on. That is the West...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 29, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Dragon Tongues: The Origin of Atmospheric Rivers from David McCloskey, designer of the Cascadia bioregion map. Learn more about David’s work at the Cascadia Institute. Flickering tongues of fire leap up from the steamy orbits of the Northern Equatorial Current...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 29, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF9 Winter in America (Again Reading VIDEO On October 12, 2025, we closed off the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a reading Winter in America (Again reading at Jude’s Old Town. CPL founder and Winter in America (Again co-editor Paul E. Nelson presented the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 17, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF9 Kubota Garden Reading On October 12, 2025, we began the last day of the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a reading at Kubota Garden. We gathered at the gorgeous garden on a gloomy morning to listen to readings by Alicia Hokanson, Roxi Power and Robert Michael...
