CPF9 Keynote Reading Video! On October 10, 2025 following concurrent breakout workshops, we started the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a keynote reading at the Rainier Beach Community Club. The...
CPF9 Friday Night Keynote Reading VIDEO
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An Implicate World, Unfolding…
An Implicate World, Unfolding...by David McCloskey A 2017 philosophical-poetic meditation by David McCloskey, creator of the Cascadia map. To learn more about David McCloskey and his work, visit the...
Register for 2025 LARFP and PAC workshops!
Register for Fall 2025 Life as Rehearsal for the Poem and Poetics as Cosmology! Fall 2025 Life as Rehearsal for the Poem and Poetics as Cosmology, facilitated by CPL Founding Director Paul E....
Submissions for Reed Magazine
Submit to Reed Magazine by Nov. 1 California's oldest literary journal is accepting art submissions for their 159th issue! Free and paid submissions for art are available. Submit by November 1 to be...
CPF9 Highlights!
CPF9 Highlights! We had an amazing time at the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival, Oct. 10-12, 2025! It was amazing to see so many new and familiar faces join our community for a weekend of poetry,...
Linda Russo on the verdant
or or As the planet heats up many animal species are either headed north or going extinct. This makes the work of the poet as witness that much more important. Who is here now? And as the culture...