Zoom Open House for registrations of the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest! PPF committee members, key volunteers and CPL staff will discuss their postcard poetry practices and answer questions in preparation for the upcoming poetry postcard fest. Wednesday, May 28, 2025 5-7 PM PST Paul Nelson's Zoom Room
Join us on June 8, 2025 from 4-7 PM at Mapes Creek for a community poetry postcard gathering! At the mouth of Mapes Creek, we will gather with a postcard collage table, food and an open mic for reading postcard poems. This is a casual poetry postcard event, so we would appreciate if any participants […]
An exclusive workshop for supporters of the Poetry Postcard Fest that donated over $10 with their PPF registration. Cascadia Poetics Lab and Poetry Postcard Fest founder Paul E. Nelson will lead provide insight on writing spontaneous postcard poetry and will guide postcard poets in exercises to prepare for the fest. DONATE HERE to add to […]
The 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest, an annual 56 day self-guided workshop in spontaneous composition and community-building. Join hundreds of poets around the world in sending 31 first-draft poems on postcards starting July 4! July 4-August 31, 2025. Register HERE.
Winter in America (Again reading at the Lopez Island Library on Lopez Island, WA. Readers include: allia abdullah-matta, Paul E Nelson, Rob Lewis, Katie Sarah Zale, Zach Charles, and others. July 8, 2025 6-8 PM PDT 2225 Fisherman Bay Road Lopez Island, WA 98261
Thursday, July 10, 6:30pm doors open Finnriver Farm & Cidery 124 Center Road Chimacum, WA 98325 Readers include: Holly Hughes, allia abdullah-matta, Paul E Nelson, Katie Sarah Zale, Roxi Power Anna Linzer.
Friday, July 11, 6:30pm Eagle Harbor Book Company 157 Winslow Way E. Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Readers include: allia abdullah-matta, Paul E Nelson, Roxi Power, Katie Sarah Zale, Anna Linzer others.
Winter in America (Again reading at the Columbia City Gallery in Seattle, WA, featuring readings by: allia abdullah-matta, Paul E Nelson, Katie Sarah Zale, Zach Charles, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Stacey Jones, Catalina Cantú, Robert Lashley, and others. Reading from the book and Q&A about creative resistance. July 12, 2025 2 PM PDT Columbia City […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
8am Tuesday before board meetings Zoom
Finance & Fundraising Committee Meeting Saturdays at 9am Zoom
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 […]