Cascadia Poetics LAB

Poetics as Cosmology Fall 2025
2025-11-13 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online (Zoom)
Poetics as Cosmology Fall 2025
Thursdays, 3-5 PM PDT
October 30, November 6, 13, 20, and December 4, 2025
A five week online (Zoom) workshop best suited for continuing participants and more experienced poets (open to open form) in workshops facilitated by Cascadia Poetics Lab and Poetry Postcard Fest Co-Founder Paul E Nelson. Participate in reading and discussion of foundational essays, interviews, listening and other assignments, as well as spontaneous poetry composition exercises. In Fall 2025, we’ll explore a short history of Projective/Outside North American Poetry, focused on:

Whitman & Dickinson
WCW & Lorine Niedecker
Olson and Levertov
McClure & di Prima
Daphne Marlatt, Brenda Hillman & Nate Mackey

and related texts and assignments. How can one’s poetics be a cosmology and how can one maintain some experience of the Poetry Postcard Fest, & allow one’s life as a creative participant in the world to rise in one’s personal hierarchy of duties/activities? How is the projective poem an antidote to Silicon Valley attention fracking? An alternative to A.I. Slop? Will you let the machines do your thinking?
Registration $250. Canadians in need can pay $250 CAD. Some scholarships available.
REGISTER HERE
