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 other contributors. What an honor to debut this book in Canada at People's Co-op!
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
Oregon launch of Cascadian Zen Monday happens at 6pm, April 30 2024 at Broadway Books in Portland, with John Brehm, Robert Michael Pyle, Cate Gable, Ann Spiers and co-editors Paul E Nelson and Jason Wirth.
Cascadia Poetics Lab Governance Committee meetings via Zoom every first Tuesday of the month at 8 a.m.
Cascadia Poetics Lab Board Meetings Every second Tuesday of the month at 6 PM More info on CPL’s board available HERE.
Cascadia Poetics Lab Governance Committee meetings via Zoom every first Tuesday of the month at 8 a.m.
Join us for 56 days of intuitive writing and join a growing and dedicated community of writers from around the world! On July 4, participants will receive a list of 31 other poets to whom they will write first-draft postcard poems until the end of August. Participants can buy postcards or make their own, and […]
Celebrate the Poetry Postcard Fest with Postcards from Here, CPL's first in-person, public poetry postcard gathering! Long-time Poetry Postcard Fest participants Tim Mateer, Abhaya Thomas and Colette Dutton will talk about their approaches to the Poetry Postcard Fest along with local poetry Postcard Fest Committee members Zach Charles and Sally Hedges-Blanquez.
Celebrate the Poetry Postcard Fest with Postcards from Here, CPL’s first in-person, public poetry postcard gathering! Long-time Poetry Postcard Fest participants Tim Mateer, Abhaya Thomas and Colette Dutton will talk about their approaches to the Poetry Postcard Fest along with local poetry Postcard Fest Committee members Zach Charles and Sally Hedges-Blanquez. Local Poetry Postcard Fest […]
Cascadia Poetics Lab Governance Committee meetings via Zoom every first Tuesday of the month at 8 a.m.
Artists and writers will gather together for 5 consecutive summer mornings along Mapes Creek in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of S.E. Seattle. Participants will be able to use this time together in whatever way best suits their creative practice while in community with fellow creatives and this urban waterway. No specific outcome or project is […]
August 22, 2024 Cascadian Zen: Mountain Rain Zen Community A talk and reading with the three editors of Cascadian Zen Volume One, Paul Nelson, Jason Wirth, and Adelia MacWilliam accompanied by Daphne Marlatt. Location and Date Mountain Rain Zen Community 2016 Wall Street Vancouver, B.C. August 22, 2024 7PM – 9PM
August 24 & 25, 2024 A Weekend of Cascadian Zen: Cumberland Watershed Press celebrates the Cumberland launch of Cascadian Zen Volume I August 24 & 25, featuring talks by poets, philosphers, and an indigenous elder, along with poetry readings and a poetry workshop. A project of the Cascadia Poetics LAB. Saturday 8/24 2 PM – […]