Cascadia Poetics LAB

Cascadian Zen Oregon Launch at Broadway Books April 30 2024
2024-04-30 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, 97232, United States
The Oregon launch of Cascadian Zen Monday happens at 6pm, April 30 2024 at Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon, with John Brehm, Robert Michael Pyle, Cate Gable, Ann Spiers and co-editors Paul E Nelson and Jason Wirth.
Broadway Books
1714 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232
503-284-1726
www.broadwaybooks.net

The Cantos of Ezra Pound (Winter - Spring 2024)
2024-04-28 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-14 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-31 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-24 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-10 15:00 | Online (Zoom)
“All times are contemporaneous in the mind.” Ezra Pound’s CANTOS is a tough book. “It can’t all be done in one language,” Pound wrote, and the pages bristle with Greek, Latin, French, Russian, Spanish, & Occitain phrases, stanzas, fragments or bits. For North American poetry the book may be a beacon of “clarity” (as Allen Ginsberg put it), “it helps us to see.” But having a guide to help you through, to see the architecture of the whole, to point out landmarks and sources, helps a great deal. I had my own guides, and enjoy leading people through the territory, having taught it at the Jack Kerouac School many times.
The class will immerse ourselves in “the Pound era,” Imagism, Vorticism, Ideogram composition via the Zoom online platform. We’ll touch on contemporaries, those who Pound knew: HD, WC Williams, WB Yeats, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy &c. Then to ancestral presences: Troubadors of Provence, lyricists of classical Greek, poets of Tang Dynasty China, dancers of Japanese Noh. Homer, Ovid, and Dante will be guides, the course will move through time and space, visiting the planet’s politics & economics, arts & wars. “An epic is a poem that includes history”: the CANTOS.
This will be a collaborative reading session. I (Andrew Schelling) am not an academic expert on the Cantos, but offer presence and insight. I’ve been a reader of Ezra Pound and his poetry for years. Coming at it as an active poet, I will point out structural aspects of the book that can baffle first-time readers. I will point to literary and political themes to help grasp why Pound’s Cantos have been such a tough but indispensable poem since he began it from the “smouldering boundary stones” of Troy and the wreckage of WW I until today. No one can read the book alone; we need to read it together. $200 for 8 sessions.
Sundays 3-5:00 PM Pacific Time
March 10, 17, 24, 31
April 7, 14, 21, 28
Some scholarships available.
Andrew Schelling, poet & translator, lives in the mountains of Colorado’s Front Range at 8000 feet, on a ridge between Four Mile and Black Diamond creeks (drain east into the Platte River). Eight books of poetry translated—Sanskrit & related tongues—old time poets. Contention over land use at Bears Ears prompted regular excursions into arid canyons that cradle rock art, ruins, & pre-history. Twenty-odd books include The Facts at Dog Tank Spring, Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing, and Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture.
The Cantos of Ezra Pound Fall-Winter 2023 Workshop
LINK TO REGISTRATION PAGE

Cascadian Zen Village Books Reading
2024-04-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Village Books and Paper Dreams, 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA, United States
Join the Cascadian Zen Editors at Village Books in Bellingham!
Cascadian Zen Vol. I editors Paul Nelson, Adelia MacWilliam and Jason Wirth will be presenting and reading from the anthology at Village Books and Paper Dreams in Bellingham, WA on April 21, 2024 at 2 P.M! More information on the reading and the ability to reserve your seat ahead of time is available HERE.
Purchase Cascadian Zen Vol. I HERE.

Cascadian Zen Canadian Launch April 20, 2024
2024-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | People’s Co-op, 1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, V5L3X5, Canada
We are delighted to announce the Canadian launch of Cascadian Zen at People’s Co-op Bookstore, Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 7pm. The anthology’s three co-editors: Paul E Nelson, Tetsuzen Jason Wirth and Adelia MacWilliam will be presenting along with Daphne Marlatt, Jami Macarty and Kate Braid. What an honor to debut this book in Canada at People’s Co-op!

Beer Sheva Park Grand Opening
2024-04-13 12:00 - 16:00 | Be’er Sheva Park, 8650 55th Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
The Cascadia Poetics Lab will be tabling the grand re-opening of Be’er Sheva Park in Rainier Beach to pass out poetry postcards and bookmarks and have books available for sale. The park is amazing and you should see it.

CPL Board Meetings
2024-04-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Online (Zoom)
Cascadia Poetics Lab monthly board meetings
Every second Tuesday of the month at 6 PM
More info on CPL’s board available HERE

The Cantos of Ezra Pound (Winter - Spring 2024)
2024-03-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Online (Zoom)
“All times are contemporaneous in the mind.” Ezra Pound’s CANTOS is a tough book. “It can’t all be done in one language,” Pound wrote, and the pages bristle with Greek, Latin, French, Russian, Spanish, & Occitain phrases, stanzas, fragments or bits. For North American poetry the book may be a beacon of “clarity” (as Allen Ginsberg put it), “it helps us to see.” But having a guide to help you through, to see the architecture of the whole, to point out landmarks and sources, helps a great deal. I had my own guides, and enjoy leading people through the territory, having taught it at the Jack Kerouac School many times.
The class will immerse ourselves in “the Pound era,” Imagism, Vorticism, Ideogram composition via the Zoom online platform. We’ll touch on contemporaries, those who Pound knew: HD, WC Williams, WB Yeats, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy &c. Then to ancestral presences: Troubadors of Provence, lyricists of classical Greek, poets of Tang Dynasty China, dancers of Japanese Noh. Homer, Ovid, and Dante will be guides, the course will move through time and space, visiting the planet’s politics & economics, arts & wars. “An epic is a poem that includes history”: the CANTOS.
This will be a collaborative reading session. I (Andrew Schelling) am not an academic expert on the Cantos, but offer presence and insight. I’ve been a reader of Ezra Pound and his poetry for years. Coming at it as an active poet, I will point out structural aspects of the book that can baffle first-time readers. I will point to literary and political themes to help grasp why Pound’s Cantos have been such a tough but indispensable poem since he began it from the “smouldering boundary stones” of Troy and the wreckage of WW I until today. No one can read the book alone; we need to read it together. $200 for 8 sessions.
Thursdays 3-5:00 PM Pacific Time
March 7, 14, 21, 28
April 4, 11, 18, 25
Some scholarships available.
Andrew Schelling, poet & translator, lives in the mountains of Colorado’s Front Range at 8000 feet, on a ridge between Four Mile and Black Diamond creeks (drain east into the Platte River). Eight books of poetry translated—Sanskrit & related tongues—old time poets. Contention over land use at Bears Ears prompted regular excursions into arid canyons that cradle rock art, ruins, & pre-history. Twenty-odd books include The Facts at Dog Tank Spring, Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing, and Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture.
The Cantos of Ezra Pound Fall-Winter 2023 Workshop
LINK TO REGISTRATION PAGE

CPL Board Meetings
2024-03-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Online (Zoom)
Cascadia Poetics Lab Board Meetings
Every second Tuesday of the month at 6 PM
More info on CPL’s board available HERE

Poetics as Cosmology Cascadian Zen
2024-02-29 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-22 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Online (Zoom)
Poetics as Cosmology Cascadian Zen Basket One: Buddha Way
A five week online (Zoom) workshop for continuing participants in the online 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 the second of two five week courses. This season we will be exploring passages from Cascadian Zen Vol 1 – Basket One: The Buddha Way. How can one’s poetics be a cosmology and maintain some experience of the Poetry Postcard Fest, to allow one’s life as a poet to rise in one’s personal hierarchy of duties/activities? $250 for each five week session per person, scholarships are available. Thursday nights, 3-5pm (February 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29, 2024) by invitation only. Preference given to participants who wish to commit to both five-week sessions in the 2024 season.
More information on course material is available HERE.
Thursday Nights, 3-5 PM Pacific Time
February 1 – February 29, 2024
(February 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29, 2024)
Link to purchase Cascadian Zen Volume 1
Zoom link: (to be announced)
REGISTER

Life as Rehearsal for the Poem Cascadian Zen
2024-02-25 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-11 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-04 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Online (Zoom)
Life as Rehearsal for the Poem (LARFP) Cascadian Zen Basket One: Buddha Way
A five week online (Zoom) workshop for continuing participants in the online 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 the first of two five week courses. This season we will be exploring passages from Cascadian Zen Vol 1 – Basket One: The Buddha Way. How can one’s poetics be a cosmology and maintain some experience of the Poetry Postcard Fest, to allow one’s life as a poet to rise in one’s personal hierarchy of duties/activities? $250 for each five week session per person, scholarships are available. Sunday nights, 3-5pm (Jan 28, February 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2024) by invitation only. Preference given to participants who wish to commit to both five-week sessions in the 2024 season.
Sunday nights, 3-5 PM Pacific Time
January 28 – February 25, 2024
(Jan 28, Feb 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2024)
Link to purchase Cascadian Zen Volume 1
Invitation Only. Zoom link: (to be announced)
REGISTER

AWP 2024 Conference
2024-02-07 - 2024-02-10 | Kansas City, MO, Kansas City, MO, United States
Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2024 Conference
The AWP conference and bookfair is a yearly meeting of writers, teachers, students, editors and publishers with hundreds of events, presentations and bookfair exhibitions.
2024 AWP conference will take in Kansas City, Missouri from February 7-10. More information on the conference schedule, off-site readings and registration available HERE.

CPL Board Retreat
2024-02-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Cascadia Poetics Lab
Retreat for Cascadia Poetics Lab’s board members and some volunteers, followed by a celebration for Dr. Jason Wirth’s birthday. More information of CPL’s board members available HERE.

CPL 30th Anniversary Celebration
2024-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Columbia City Gallery, 4865 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Cascadia Poetics Lab 30th Anniversary
Celebrating 30 Years of Cascadia Poetics LAB
30th Anniversary Party and launch of Cascadian Prophets, edited by Sharon Thesen
Friday February 2, 2024 at 7pm
Columbia City Gallery
4865 Rainier Ave S
Seattle, WA 98118
Launch of Cascadian Prophets (Interviews 1999-2023)
Featuring special guest Sharon Thesen, editor of Cascadian Prophets, speaker Dr. Jason Wirth, and others!
Sponsored by SEEDArts and Columbia City Gallery

The Cantos of Ezra Pound
2024-01-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Online (Zoom)
“All times are contemporaneous in the mind.” Ezra Pound’s CANTOS is a tough book. “It can’t all be done in one language,” Pound wrote, and the pages bristle with Greek, Latin, French, Russian, Spanish, & Occitain phrases, stanzas, fragments or bits. For North American poetry the book may be a beacon of “clarity” (as Allen Ginsberg put it), “it helps us to see.” But having a guide to help you through, to see the architecture of the whole, to point out landmarks and sources, helps a great deal. I had my own guides, and enjoy leading people through the territory, having taught it at the Jack Kerouac School many times.
The class will immerse ourselves in “the Pound era,” Imagism, Vorticism, Ideogram composition. We’ll touch on contemporaries, those who Pound knew: HD, WC Williams, WB Yeats, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy &c. Then to ancestral presences: Troubadors of Provence, lyricists of classical Greek, poets of Tang Dynasty China, dancers of Japanese Noh. Homer, Ovid, and Dante will be guides, the course will move through time and space, visiting the planet’s politics & economics, arts & wars. “An epic is a poem that includes history”: the CANTOS.
This will be a collaborative reading session. I (Andrew Schelling) am not an academic expert on the Cantos, but offer presence and insight. I’ve been a reader of Ezra Pound and his poetry for years. Coming at it as an active poet, I will point out structural aspects of the book that can baffle first-time readers. I will point to literary and political themes to help grasp why Pound’s Cantos have been such a tough but indispensable poem since he began it from the “smouldering boundary stones” of Troy and the wreckage of WW I until today. No one can read the book alone; we need to read it together. $200 for 8 sessions.
Sundays, 3-4:30 PM Pacific Time
Nov 19 & 26,
December 3, 10 & 17
Jan 7, 14 & 21
Some scholarships available.
Andrew Schelling, poet & translator, lives in the mountains of Colorado’s Front Range at 8000 feet, on a ridge between Four Mile and Black Diamond creeks (drain east into the Platte River). Eight books of poetry translated—Sanskrit & related tongues—old time poets. Contention over land use at Bears Ears prompted regular excursions into arid canyons that cradle rock art, ruins, & pre-history. Twenty-odd books include The Facts at Dog Tank Spring, Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing, and Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture.

REGISTER

Cascadian Zen Arundel Books Reading
2024-01-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Arundel Books, 323 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
Cascadian Zen Vol. I Reading at Arundel Books in Seattle!
Friday Jan 19, 2024 7-8:30 PM
Arundel Books
321 1st Ave S.
Seattle, WA 98104
Readers include Adelia MacWilliam, Jason Wirth, Paul Nelson, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Terran Campbell, Ann Spiers, Alicia Hokanson and John Brehm. More information on the event available HERE.

Arundel Books Reading
2024-01-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Arundel Books, 323 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
The editors of Cascadian Zen: Volume I will be joined by four other poets from the new anthology at Arundel Books, at 7pm, Friday, January 19, 2024. Free tickets are available at Eventbrite. The event is a celebration the creative voices that came together to create the anthology comprised of poetry, non-fiction, and art dedicated to the bioregion of Cascadia.
What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the teachers in the relatively short time that Zen has been known in this bioregion? What role does water play here, more so than in other bioregions and what implications does that have for the people who live here, for their practice?
Readers will include Adelia MacWilliam, Paul Nelson, Jason Wirth, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Terran Campbell, Ann Spiers & Alicia Hokanson.
Location: Arundel Books323 1st Ave S.Seattle WA 98104
