11a-1p, Saturday, June 6 is your last time to hang out with other postcard poets, learn about the area's local history and create some collages for your 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest season. It's year...
Cascadia Poetics LAB blog
Wang Ping on the Kinship of Rivers
If you were to give the third or fourth longest river in the world a wish, it might simply to run free or to be clean and pure again. In the summer of 2013, the world's third longest river, the...
Last 2026 Poetry Postcard Activation June 6 11a-1pm
Our last Poetry Postcard Activation of the year is set for Saturday, June 6, 2026, at Pritchard Beach. We'll have postcard collage supplies, a postcard prompt provided by Cascadia 2050 and a talk...
Every Death Hurts (Josh Massey on Barry McKinnon)
I met Barry McKinnon at a Gwillim Lake Writing Retreat near Tumbler Ridge in 2008. This is north of Prince George, maybe six hours west of Edmonton deep in the mountains. I worked in forestry at the...
I Want to Write a Poem (But Don’t Know How): A Cascadia 2050 workshop
On Saturday, June 27, from 3 - 5pm, Cascadia 2050 will be hosting a workshop titled: I Want to Write a Poem (But Don't Know How). Cost: free, suggested donation $25. Sign up here. In my experience,...
Cascadia 2050 interview with Julie Masters
This year the Poetry Postcard Fest celebrates its 20th anniversary. From the fest many a creative project has spawned, and one recent example of that is Julie Master’s book: No Headlines Here:...









