Communal reading of Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day On December 21st, 2025 at Common Objects in Seattle (2601 1st Ave), celebrate the winter solstice with a communal reading of Bernadette Mayer's...
Cascadia Poetics LAB blog
World Meditation Day 2025 Dec. 21
Celebrate World Meditation Day on December 21, 2025! From the Art of Living Foundation: On the Longest Night, Find the Light Within The winter solstice is the darkest day of the year—and the moment...
Register for Winter 2026 Workshops!
CPL Winter 2026 Workshops! Keep your poetic light shining bright during the dark winter days with Cascadia Poetics Lab workshops! We're excited to welcome poet Harold Rhenisch as a guest...
Gary Copeland Lilley on Raven on the Moaners’ Bench
"The first pew in the old time Black church is the Moaners' bench." - Gary Copeland Lilley Artificial intelligence and it's racist assumptions suggests "mourners' bench" as a clarification, but the...
Veronica Martinez CPL Letter of Recommendation
Here is our final letter of recommendation in celebration of winning a Humanities Washington Award--the letter written by me, Veronica! We have shared letters of nomination and support by Katie...
Thank you for supporting CPL on Giving Tuesday!
We have the deepest gratitude for everyone that donated to the CPL Annual Fund and to our Giving Tuesday campaign on December 2! As we've said before and will continue to reiterate: the success of...










