UNDERSTANDING AUTHORITARIANISM - PLAYS, PUPPETS, POETRY: ARTISTS RESPOND TO AUTHORITARIANISM Seattle University staff, including CPL board member Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, will be discussing plays, puppets, and poetry as modes of resistance to authoritarianism. The panel will close with a discussion between the panelists and audience about the power of the arts to create meaning in […]
thinkingwith: writing strategies for reconnecting to earth with Matt Trease This lab will focus on writing strategies, applicable for poetry or prose, for breaking the spell that objectifies and cuts us off from the earth and from place and all the living beings that we (often) obliviously live in relationship with. We’ll do that by […]
Weekly staff meetings for CPL staff with founding director Paul E. Nelson. Every Monday at 10 AM Pacific Time. February 23, 2026 10 A.M. to 11:30 P.M. PST Online
thinkingwith: writing strategies for reconnecting to earth with Matt Trease This lab will focus on writing strategies, applicable for poetry or prose, for breaking the spell that objectifies and cuts us off from the earth and from place and all the living beings that we (often) obliviously live in relationship with. We’ll do that by […]
Governance committee meetings, every first Tuesday of the month Learn more about the CPL governance committee HERE.
Meeting with the Cascadia Poetics Lab Finance Committee, every first Saturday of the month. Learn more about the CPL Finance Committee HERE
thinkingwith: writing strategies for reconnecting to earth with Matt Trease This lab will focus on writing strategies, applicable for poetry or prose, for breaking the spell that objectifies and cuts us off from the earth and from place and all the living beings that we (often) obliviously live in relationship with. We’ll do that by […]
Cascadia Poetics Lab monthly board meetings Every second Tuesday of the month at 6 PM More info on CPL’s board available HERE
Meeting with the Cascadia Poetics Lab Fundraising Committee, every second Saturday of the month. Learn more about the CPL Fundraising Committee HERE
thinkingwith: writing strategies for reconnecting to earth with Matt Trease This lab will focus on writing strategies, applicable for poetry or prose, for breaking the spell that objectifies and cuts us off from the earth and from place and all the living beings that we (often) obliviously live in relationship with. We’ll do that by […]
Poetry workshop in collaboration with Rainier Beach Action Coalition. March 21, 202611a-1P
Poetics as Cosmology Workshop on the history of Innovative Cascadia Poetry with Paul E Nelson
Life as Rehearsal for the Poem Life as Rehearsal for the Poem workshop on the history of innovative Cascadian Poetry, from Theodore Roethke to Cedar Sigo. Online, facilitated by Paul E Nelson. Sundays 3-5 PM PDT March 29, April 5, 12, 19 & 26. $125 REGISTER HERE
Poetry postcard workshop in cooperation with yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective. Join us to make poetry postcard collages and write postcard poetry. April 1, 2026 Time: 6p-8p Place: 9674 51st Ave S, Seattle Cost: FREE
Poetics as Cosmology Workshop on the history of Innovative Cascadia Poetry, from Theodore Roethke to Cedar Sigo. Online, facilitated by Paul E Nelson