by Ryukan | Mar 28, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Imagine growing up a poet in a state like Wisconsin and having to travel to Colorado to learn about the work of Lorine Niedecker, and furthermore to have one’s own consciousness changed by engagement with her work. Niedecker’s work, since her death in 1970, has...
by Ryukan | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
We hope to see you at Village Books in Bellingham for a reading of Cascadian Zen. Sunday, April 21, 2024 from...
by Ryukan | Mar 22, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Books
The first printing of Cascadian Zen Volume I: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now has sold out and a deluxe edition is available. Proceeds from sales of these rare books will help fund the publication of Cascadian Zen Volume II due in Fall 2024. The launch...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 20, 2024 | CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Video by Zach Charles Poetry Postcard Fest board member Zach Charles made a video discussing why he loves PPF and reading a Postcard Poem! Watch the video below! Registration for PPF 2024 is open NOW! Register...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Cascadia Poetics Lab is thrilled to be working with a community group here in Rainier Beach that seeks to create greater awareness of e creek that comes out of the ground south of legendary Kubota Garden, runs through a series of ponds there, through a ravine and...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 13, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Obituary for Postcard Poet Marit Saltrønes: Marit Saltrønes (Chris Ness)April 25, 1954 – January 2, 2024 Late in the evening of January 2, Marit died in her apartment at Pike Place Market. Marit’s health issues had been dogging her for nearly a decade. Free now,...
by Veronica Martinez | Mar 11, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF Board Member Ina Roy-Faderman: Oh, I hate this time change, harbinger of longer days. For me, summer is rough. I thrive in the cool and the rain, which we get plenty of in the winters of the West coast. Left to my own devices, I’d spend the summer skulking...
by Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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...
