Postcards From Here Olympic Sculpture Park
2025-07-13 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Olympic Sculpture Park, 2901 Western Ave, Seattle, WA, 98121, United States
Cascadia Poetics Lab will be returning to the Olympic Sculpture Park for another Postcards from Here event! Poetry Postcard Fest committee members and key volunteers will be tabling at the Olympic Sculpture Park, leading the public in postcard collage making and spreading the love for postcard poetry.
July 13, 2025
11 AM-3 PM PST
2901 Western Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

Winter in America (Again in Sacramento
2025-07-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Online (Zoom)
WINTER IN AMERICA (AGAIN — POETS RESPOND TO 2024 ELECTION: A HYBRID READING FEATURING CONTRIBUTORS TO THE ANTHOLOGY
This event will be in person and via Zoom. Monday, July 21 at 7:30-9:30 PM PDT
Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street
Sacramento, CA 95816
ZOOM LINK
SPC is grateful to be able to host a reading featuring contributors to the important anthology, Winter In America (Again — Poets Respond to 2024 Election (Carbonation Press, Spokane, 2025). They will be joined by local poets who will also read selections from the book. As we already see dire consequences to the results of the election, it is imperative that all of us work toward actions that will help mitigate the damage. Poets are often at the forefront of such action — talking back and speaking to the heart of the issues. So it is with this collection. Many thanks to all of the contributors and local participants. Special gratitude is offered to poet and translator (and anthology contributor) William O’Daly for his efforts to make this event possible.

The readers — some of whom are editors and editorial board members for the book as well as contributors — include Greg Bem, Francisco Dominguez, Lara Gularte, Lorin Medley, Paul Nelson, William O’Daly, Roxy Power, Beverly Parayno, Theresa Whitehill, Cathleen Williams, Katie Sarah Zale, and Patrick Grizzell.

Jim O'Halloran Quartet at Bradner Gardens
2025-08-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Bradner Gardens, 1730 Bradner Pl. S , Seattle, WA, 98144, United States
Join the Jim O’Halloran quartet for a performance at Bradner Gardens featuring Paul Nelson as a guest poet! Jim O’Halloran will be featured playing the flute and will be joined by Brian Monroney on guitar, Kelsey Mines on bass, and Jacques Willis on drums. Dancers Alia Swersky and Hannah Rice will also be performing!
Saturday, August 9 6:30-8:30 PM PDT
Bradner Gardens Park
1730 Bradner Pl. S
Seattle, WA 98144

Rain Shadow Poetry Festival Language and the Land
2025-08-22 19:00 - 2025-08-24 12:30 | The Abbey Studio, 2689 Penrith Ave, Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Cascadia Poetics Lab will be attending and participating in the Rain Shadow Poetics Lab summer poetry festival: Language and the Land.
From Friday, August 22 to Sunday, August 24, 2025, Cumberland, BC hosts readings, workshops and lectures with poets from Quadra Island, Courtenay/Comox, Vancouver, the Okanagan, and Washington State.
The 2025 festival brings together poets pursuing a sense of deep time and place from across greater Cascadia to pose the question, ‘what is a bioregional poetic practice?‘ Cascadia Poetic Lab youth initiative Cascadia 2050 will be presenting with acclaimed poet and academic Robert Bringhurst the night of August 23.
Festival tickets are available HERE. Full schedule is available HERE.

Governance Committee Meeting
2025-09-06 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-10-07 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-11-04 08:00 - 09:00 | Zoom
8am
Tuesday before board meetings
Zoom

Finance & Fundraising Committee Meeting
2025-09-06 09:00 - 10:15, 2025-09-20 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-11-01 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Finance & Fundraising Committee Meeting
Saturdays at 9am
Zoom

Postcard Fest Wrap-up
2025-09-06 14:00 - 16:00
Join us on Zoom on Saturday, September 6 for the Poetry Postcard Fest ’25 Wrap Up ZoomParty. We will meet at 2 pm PST and chat for 2 hours about our experiences this summer in the Fest, share some of our favorite cards we received, and talk about ways to keep the poetic energy flowing into the autumn. We’ll also talk about some exciting potential for the 20th Poetry Postcard Fest next year! Meet us on the ZoomRoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2064225002.

Poet as Radio Fall 2025
2025-09-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-14 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-28 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Online (Zoom)
Poet as Radio: Writing from Intuition
A 5-week online poetry workshop designed for folks with a wide variety of experience with poetry and with a keen interest in spirituality and the occult. This course is more than a workshop; it’s a journey into the unknown, where you’ll discover hidden messages and ideas both from within yourself and the outside world. Through chance, divination, games, and ritual, you’ll learn to trust your intuition and let your spontaneity guide your writing.
Participants will engage in simple but fun word games to encourage spontaneity, explore the body as a receiver of intuitive messages, and develop and practice small rituals that enhance their perception of everyday life. Readings will include works by Jack Spicer, Hoa Nguyen, and CA Conrad among others. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to deepen your poetic practice, this workshop will provide you with the tools and inspiration to transform your writing. Join us as we tune into the invisible frequencies and uncover hidden messages emanating from the world outside!
Sundays 3-5:00 PM Pacific Time
September 7 – October 5, 2025
September 7, 14, 21, 28
October 5
Online
REGISTER HERE

CPL Board Meeting
2025-09-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
CPL Board Meeting
Via Zoom
6-7:30pm
2nd Tuesdays of each month unless specified otherwise

Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism
2025-09-17 17:30 - 19:30 | Online (Zoom)
Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book: The Roots of Modernism with Michael Boughn
We will read The H.D. Book together over 5 weeks. It’s a big book, so that’s a lot of reading, but he’s a joy to read, so it’s not exactly onerous. I will probably talk a bit at the beginning of each session and then open it up to the participants. I wrote the introduction. You should read it first. We can talk about that as well. The goal here is to let Duncan lead us into an encounter with the marvelous as we follow his encounter with H.D. as it led him into the depths of history, mind, and soul.
Wednesdays 5:30-7:30 PM Pacific Time
September 17 – October 15, 2025
September 17, 24
October 1, 8, and 15
Online
REGISTER HERE

Robert Duncan's HD Book: The Roots of Modernism
2025-09-24 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-01 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Online (Zoom)

Poetry Postcard Fest Committee Meeting
2025-09-26 11:00 - 12:00

Finance & Fundraising Committee Meeting
2025-10-04 09:00 - 10:00 | Online (Zoom)

Robert Duncan's HD Book
2025-10-08 17:30 - 19:30 | Online (Zoom)

9th Cascadia Poetry Festival
2025-10-10 09:00 - 2025-10-12 19:00 | Rainier Beach Community Center, 8825 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
What does it mean to be here? What practices help reconnect a person to a place? How does this manifest in Cascadia as opposed to other bioregions, places? What are poets doing to respond to the realities of the United States moving toward an authoritarian style of rule?
The Cascadia Poetry Festival is a gathering of poets and bioregionalists, exploring poetry and its connection to environmental, political, historical, and sociological pursuits within Cascadia bioregion. The festival aims to consider how prioritizing natural and cultural boundaries, rather than arbitrary political ones, can address climate change and other issues.
October 10-12, 2025 at the Rainier Beach Community Center
Full schedule available HERE. Gold passes available HERE.
Workshops and panels featuring poets Brenda Cardenas, Zach Charles, Jim Dott, Roberto Harrison, Brenda Hillman, Alicia Hokanson, Robert Lashley, Lorin Medley, Rhea Melina, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Paul E. Nelson, Roxi Power, Robert Michael Pyle, Sharon Thesen, Matt Trease, Jason Wirth, Katie Sarah Zale.

CPL Board Meeting
2025-10-14 18:00 - 19:30

Poetics As Cosmology
2025-10-29 08:00 - 17:00

Poetics as Cosmology Fall 2025
2025-10-30 15:00 - 17:00 | 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.

Life as Rehearsal for the Poem Fall 2025
2025-11-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Online (Zoom)
Life as Rehearsal for the Poem
Sundays, 3-5 PM PDT
November 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 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
