Support Cascadia Poetics Lab on Giving Tuesday!

Support Cascadia Poetics Lab! November 1-3, 2024, we hosted a beautiful 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival at the Hugo House, Neukom Vivarium and Spring Street Center in Seattle. Cascadia Poetry Festival 8 featured multiple prominent poets and academics from throughout the...

Celebrate Cascadia Poetics Lab on Giving Tuesday!

Celebrate CPL on Giving Tuesday Dec. 3! We thank all participants and attendees at the recent 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival. We hope to stage this at the Hugo House annually for years to come. Videos and photos from the festival will be shared on the Cascadia Poetics...

Poetry Postcard Certificates!

Share your postcard poems for a PPF certificate!  Thank you so much to every postcard poet that has already shared their postcard art and poems! Postcard poets that share 3 images of their postcard art with the accompanying poems get a certificate as a thank you for...

Rest in Poetry Richard Osler

Postcard poet Richard Osler died last night. Huge thanks to all postcard poets who wrote & sent a postcard poem to this fine human and poet. He accepted death like no one I have ever known. A book, his last love letter to life entitled What Holiness Will I Bring,...

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The Cards I Got + INTERVIEW SEASON!

The Cards I Got + INTERVIEW SEASON!

Look at the 53 cards I got in 2021: If the baseball season can go into November, then postcard season can go late into October and I have been blown away by all the postcard love I got this year. I...

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From JD Eames

From JD Eames

Dear Paul, I hope this is the correct email to write you about the Festival. First time Postcard Poetry participant here. As of today, I've received 21 postcards! Very impressed by the ingenuity of...

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Mary Beth Frezon PPF Afterword

Mary Beth Frezon PPF Afterword

Thank you Mary Beth Frezon, veteran postcarder, for these wise words: Yes I’m one of those people who mark your card as arrived when it does but I don’t worry about it if it doesn’t. I’m grateful...

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Alice Van Mill 2021 PPF Afterword

Alice Van Mill 2021 PPF Afterword

I enjoyed participating in the poetry festival.  Although I only have received 9 poems so far, I can see the thoughtfulness in them. I will be looking forward to receiving more in the mail.  I have...

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Judy Kleinberg 2021 PPF Afterword

Judy Kleinberg 2021 PPF Afterword

Longtime postcard poet and co-editor of 56 Days of August Judy Kleinberg has published her 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest afterword: I never know quite when it’s over — when all of the postcards I’m...

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PPF Companion Piece

PPF Companion Piece

From Laura Gamache: Reading through my 2023 POPO poems, I notice the joy. I wrote about quail twice, about the lake moving, and the moon. There were a lot of birds -- LBJ's, as my mom called them, ...

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