“Rescue and Revival of a Seattle Legend: Carletta Carrington Wilson Interprets James Washington Jr.” is an essay in a book that chronicles a residency at the home of this under-appreciated Seattle...
Cascadia Poetics LAB blog
Salt Spring Island Reading
The board of the Cascadia Poetics Lab had its spring 2023 board retreat on Salt Spring Island. Our last retreat on the Long Beach Peninsula was a huge success and we made new friends in that part of...
ARTSFUND Community Accelerator Grant
We are proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Community Accelerator Grant funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and awarded by ArtsFund! This gift will accelerate our organization’s...
Heavy Lifting Art Book (Feilcia Rice, Theresa Whitehill)
It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before turning the lights out. It’s also been described as “protest beauty” and is the collaboration of a printer...
Toward Cascadian Independence: For the Life of the Place as a Whole
From David McCloskey: What end does politics serve? Surely it must serve ends beyond itself. Why seek greater bioregional autonomy? For self-determination. Yes, but what purpose in turn shall that...
AWP Off-Site Events
The AWP Conference is in Seattle again (March 8-11) and 10,000 writers are expected to be in Seattle for the proceedings. (Come say hello to the Cascadia Poetics Lab at the bookfair. We have at...










