Cascadia Poetics LAB was known as SPLAB prior to September 2021. Here you will find past SPLAB blog articles going back to 2009.
Poetry Postcard “Activations” with postcard collage-making materials, postcards, pens, scissors and a grid for the words that will go into the creation of a Personal Universe Deck for each park where we plan events.
Info on the tribute reading for Koon Woon, Seattle poet and publisher who is fighting stage four pancreatic cancer. C&P Coffee Company, 5612 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136.
Spokane Memorial for Renee Nicole Good organized by Greg Bem
It’s postcard season, and I’m ready! Once, a young friend went to Europe. “Send me a postcard,” I said as she...
Bonus for non-USA Poetry Postcard Fest participants in 2024 for the 18th iteration of the event which starts July 4, 2024.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2024 Contact: Paul E. Nelson pen@cascadiapoeticslab.org CASCADIA POETICS LAB TO HOST...
Bob met me at the retro Atomic Motel and we talked for over an hour about his new book, the poems in it, his childhood, bioregionalism, his trip to Cuba, Vladimir Nabokov’s notion via biographer Brian Boyd of “attending to the individuating detail” of one’s life (an upgrade from the same notion I’ve gotten from Blake and Pound) and his general “thing” “close attention to the natural world.” It’s the June 2024 Cascadian Prophets podcast:
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Poetry and Posole Cascadia Day Celebrate the power of the natural world and the magnificence of the Cascadia bioregion...
Some photos and notes from the April 27 2024 Blessing of Mapes Creek facilitated by the Cascadia Poetics Lab in Rainier Beach.
Paul E Nelson interviews Bill Porter on the film “Dancing With the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation as it screens Sunday, April 21 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian.
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We hope to see you at Village Books in Bellingham for a reading of Cascadian Zen. Sunday, April 21, 2024 from 2-4pm.
Paul E Nelson interviews Tessa Hulls on Feeding Ghosts her graphic memoir
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Adelia MacWilliam of the Cascadia Poetics Lab writes in praise of the Cantos of Ezra Pound course facilitated by Andrew Schelling
Cascadian Zen has received a wonderful reception from the regional Zen community. The Northwest Dharma Association published a blog post about the book. An excerpt:
The original idea for the book and Watershed Press came from a small, literary arts organization called The Cascadia Poetics Lab. It is based in the Rainier Beach neighborhood in Seattle—we celebrate our 30th anniversary in December 2023—and its mission is “Empowering people to practice poetry & deepen connections to place, self & the present moment.”
Through his books, I took lessons from Ezra Pound, who was a schoolmaster at heart and had a lot of things to say about what young poets should read and how they should read it. His politics were bonkers, but his ear was a good ear. I learned a lot from him and from others. But it dawned on me one day that my literary schooling had a gaping hole in the center. Except as a colonial construction, the land I was born in – the whole continent and hemisphere I was born in – was missing from this otherwise detailed map of the literary world. It was as if there were no Native American culture, no Native American literature – and I knew this to be false,
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Lorna Dee Cervantes Interview on April on Olympia
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Before moving to Europe, Auburn, Washington native Stephen Thomas was quite active in the Seattle literary scene. He...
When I flex my muscle of empathy, I am capable of hearing not only your words, but also your humanity -- Paul K....