Announcing the 1st Annual Charles Potts Poetry Award! The Charles Potts Poetry Award is a new award that will yearly present a writer with the resources to publish their first book of poetry. From...
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CPL Granted Community Accelerator Grant from ArtsFund
Cascadia Poetics Lab is excited to share that we are a recipient of a 2025 Community Accelerator Grant Fund by Allen Family Philanthropies and awarded by Artsfund! This gift will accelerate our...
Register for Fall Workshops!
Cascadia Poetics Lab Fall 2025 Workshops We hope everyone had a rejuvenating and sunny summer! Fall is fast approaching, which means our fall 2025 workshops are beginning soon! Registration is still...
Winter in America (Still Submissions Open!
Submit to Winter in America (Still We invite poets and artists to contribute to the Winter in America (Again sequel anthology Winter in America (Still, edited by Paul E. Nelson, Katie Sarah Zale,...
CPL at the Rain Shadow Poetry Festival!
The weekend of August 21-24, Paul Nelson and 3/4 of the Cascadia 2050 crew embarked on a journey to Cumberland, British Columbia for the Rain Shadow Poetry Festival! The first night of the festival,...
Interview with El Habib Louai at Desolation Peak
On the morning of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Habib and Paul Nelson awoke before 6A and were hiking with full packs up to “Jack’s Shack." But after an hour, maybe less, they knew they were not going...










