by Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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 Veronica Martinez | 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...
by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, News
Cascadian Zen has received a wonderful reception from the regional Zen community. The Northwest Dharma Association published a blog post about the book. An excerpt: The original idea for the book and Watershed Press came from a small, literary arts organization called...
by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Books
On Friday, January 19, 2024 at 7pm, Arundel Books hosted a reading from Cascadian Zen. Two of the books three editors were there, Tetsuzen Jason Wirth and your humble narrator in his first public reading since taking on the Buddhist precepts in the Jukai ceremony,...
by Veronica Martinez | Jan 11, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Watch the CPF7 Sunday closing readings! On October 8, 2023, we closed Cascadia Poetry Festival 7 with a viewing of the Heavy Lifting film, a film adaptation of Felicia Rice and Theresa Whitehill’s book of the same name (pictured below). Following this, Paul...
by Ryukan | Jan 2, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
The third and final part of my October 22, 2023 interview with Robert Bringhurst is presented here today and will be part of the upcoming book Cascadian Prophets: Interviews 1999-2023. The book will be launched at the 30th anniversary celebration of the Cascadia...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 30, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Listen to the CPF7 After Party readings! Following our multiple Cascadia Poetry Festival 7 presentations on Saturday, October 7, 2023, many participants congregated at Vermillion Bar in Capitol Hill, Seattle, to attend the CPF7 afterparty, organized and hosted by...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 26, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Watch the CPF7 Saturday Night Readings! To close out our second day of Cascadia Poetry Festival 7, poet, teacher, astrologer and CPL board member Matt Trease hosted readings by Andrew Schelling, Cedar Sigo, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Tess Gallagher and Brenda...
by Ryukan | Dec 23, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Alice died today, December 23, 2023 so we are re-posting this interview as Alice heads to postcard heaven. Goodbye dear poet. The 2022 fest is winding down and registration for 2023 begins on September 1. A new postcard poet saw my stash here at Casa del Colibrí and...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 23, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, News
Highlights from the Cascadian Zen Vol. I Mini Tour! In celebration of the release of Cascadian Zen Vol. I published by Watershed Press, Cascadia Poetics Lab embarked on a mini-tour of readings and presentations in Washington and Oregon in early December. The mini-tour...
