Throughout the year, we organize events designed to foster a community of like-minded people centered around organic, open-form poetry, and an ecological philosophy that emphasizes a connection to our bioregion, its history and the indigenous people that lived here long, long before colonization. We aim to expose our supporters to ideas about art as an art-of-living practice, inspired by the spiritual practice of understanding the bioregion surrounding us: soil, air, water, flora, fauna, and weather. In 2023, we hosted a successful Poetry Postcard Fest and the 7th Cascadia Poetry Festival, along with launching Watershed Press and publishing our anthology Cascadian Zen Vol. I. This is all thanks to donations from people like you!


POETRY POSTCARD FEST BLOG
PPF 2023 Open Mic Video
Watch the 2023 PPF Open Mic Video! On October 1, 2023, the poet participants of the 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest met on...
Postcard Fest ’23 Wrap Up
From Zach Charles: Good Autumn Postcard-ians and non-Postcard-ians alike,I wanted to share a few thoughts on this...
Post-Postcard Fest Zoom Reading (by Ina)
Postcard Zoom gathering Oct 1, 2024 organized by Ina Roy-Faderman
Five Things I Learned During the 2023 Fest
From Ina Roy-Faderman: It happens every year: despite my having been part of the Fest for more than a decade, I learn...
Register now for PPF 2024!
Register now for Early Bird access to 2024 Poetry Postcard Fest! We had an absolute blast with the 2023 Poetry...
PPF Companion Piece
From Laura Gamache: Reading through my 2023 POPO poems, I notice the joy. I wrote about quail twice, about the lake...
2023 Post-Fest Party and Open Mic
October 1: Save the Date! 2023 Post-Fest Party and Open Mic From Dr. Ina Roy-Faderman, PPF Board Chair:Based on social...
J.I. Kleinberg: A Postcard Success Story
From PPF board member J.I. Kleinberg: Back in 2017, for reasons I cannot now recall, I found myself writing postcard...
2024 POSTCARD FEST REGISTRATION IS OPEN
The 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest is over & ends with the second largest participation in 17 years. See stats here....
Announcing the Poetry Postcard Fest Project Board
Introducing the Poetry Postcard Fest Project Board, a committee of the Cascadia Poetics Lab dedicated to improving the...
The Fun Matters!
by Margaret Lee I keep signing up for the Poetry Postcard Fest every year, primarily because it’s the most fun I ever...