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SUMMARY:Poetics As Cosmology Overland to Levertov
DESCRIPTION:A five week online (Zoom) workshop for people who have some spontaneous poetry composition experience & want to go deep. Join Cascadia Poetics Lab and Poetry Postcard Fest Co-Founder Paul E Nelson in a lively course designed to help you tap into deeper levels of knowing that can begin inform your non-writing life & reduce reliance on editing. Some theory to understand the poetics of 20th/21st c approaches to spontaneous composition (see below) some writing exercises\, discussion and between class homework. The work of Denise Levertov’s Overland to the Islands will be discussed each week as well as work from poets like\, Michael McClure\, Wanda Coleman\, Brenda Hillman\, Nate Mackey\, Robert Duncan\, Robin Blaser and others. along with concepts such as seriality\, & investigative poetics & how to write more by getting the most out of first drafts. There will be reading\, writing and other assigned materials/exercises available a week before the course begins and each week after. \nThursdays\, 4-6pm Pacific Time\nOct 19 & 26 and Nov 2\, 9\, & 16. $250.\nSome scholarships available. \nREGISTER
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/poetics-as-cosmology-overland-to-levertov-3/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul E. Nelson":MAILTO:splabman@icloud.com
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SUMMARY:Life As Rehearsal for the Poem (LARFP) Overland to Levertov
DESCRIPTION: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 three five week courses. This season we add a component of Spiritual Ecology\, which will consist of weekly field work designed to deepen participants connection to place. We will also study Denise Levertov’s Overland to the Islands. (Levertov would have turned 100 October 24\, 2023.) 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\, 4-6pm (Oct 15\, 22\, 29 & Nov 5 & 12) by invitation only. Max ten participants. Preference given to participants who wish to commit to all three five week sessions in the 2023/2024 season. \nSunday nights\, 4-6 PM Pacific Time\nOct 15\, 22\, 29 & Nov 5 & 12\nby invitation only \nCOURSE MATERIALS WEEK ONE\, Sunday\, October 15\, 2023\, 4-6pm PDT\nREAD: https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-air-aware/ \nREGISTER
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/life-as-rehearsal-for-the-poem-larfp-overland-to-levertov-4/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul E. Nelson":MAILTO:splabman@icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T180000
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SUMMARY:Poetics As Cosmology Overland to Levertov
DESCRIPTION:A five week online (Zoom) workshop for people who have some spontaneous poetry composition experience & want to go deep. Join Cascadia Poetics Lab and Poetry Postcard Fest Co-Founder Paul E Nelson in a lively course designed to help you tap into deeper levels of knowing that can begin inform your non-writing life & reduce reliance on editing. Some theory to understand the poetics of 20th/21st c approaches to spontaneous composition (see below) some writing exercises\, discussion and between class homework. The work of Denise Levertov’s Overland to the Islands will be discussed each week as well as work from poets like\, Michael McClure\, Wanda Coleman\, Brenda Hillman\, Nate Mackey\, Robert Duncan\, Robin Blaser and others. along with concepts such as seriality\, & investigative poetics & how to write more by getting the most out of first drafts. There will be reading\, writing and other assigned materials/exercises available a week before the course begins and each week after. \nThursdays\, 4-6pm Pacific Time\nOct 19 & 26 and Nov 2\, 9\, & 16. $250.\nSome scholarships available. \nREGISTER
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/poetics-as-cosmology-overland-to-levertov-4/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Workshop-Poetics-As-Cosmology-OverlandToLevertov.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul E. Nelson":MAILTO:splabman@icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231112T160000
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SUMMARY:Life As Rehearsal for the Poem (LARFP) Overland to Levertov
DESCRIPTION: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 three five week courses. This season we add a component of Spiritual Ecology\, which will consist of weekly field work designed to deepen participants connection to place. We will also study Denise Levertov’s Overland to the Islands. (Levertov would have turned 100 October 24\, 2023.) 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\, 4-6pm (Oct 15\, 22\, 29 & Nov 5 & 12) by invitation only. Max ten participants. Preference given to participants who wish to commit to all three five week sessions in the 2023/2024 season. \nSunday nights\, 4-6 PM Pacific Time\nOct 15\, 22\, 29 & Nov 5 & 12\nby invitation only \nCOURSE MATERIALS WEEK ONE\, Sunday\, October 15\, 2023\, 4-6pm PDT\nREAD: https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-air-aware/ \nREGISTER
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/life-as-rehearsal-for-the-poem-larfp-overland-to-levertov-5/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul E. Nelson":MAILTO:splabman@icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetics As Cosmology Overland to Levertov
DESCRIPTION:A five week online (Zoom) workshop for people who have some spontaneous poetry composition experience & want to go deep. Join Cascadia Poetics Lab and Poetry Postcard Fest Co-Founder Paul E Nelson in a lively course designed to help you tap into deeper levels of knowing that can begin inform your non-writing life & reduce reliance on editing. Some theory to understand the poetics of 20th/21st c approaches to spontaneous composition (see below) some writing exercises\, discussion and between class homework. The work of Denise Levertov’s Overland to the Islands will be discussed each week as well as work from poets like\, Michael McClure\, Wanda Coleman\, Brenda Hillman\, Nate Mackey\, Robert Duncan\, Robin Blaser and others. along with concepts such as seriality\, & investigative poetics & how to write more by getting the most out of first drafts. There will be reading\, writing and other assigned materials/exercises available a week before the course begins and each week after. \nThursdays\, 4-6pm Pacific Time\nOct 19 & 26 and Nov 2\, 9\, & 16. $250.\nSome scholarships available. \nREGISTER
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/poetics-as-cosmology-overland-to-levertov-5/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Workshop-Poetics-As-Cosmology-OverlandToLevertov.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul E. Nelson":MAILTO:splabman@icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231119T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231119T163000
DTSTAMP:20230823T183104Z
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SUMMARY:The Cantos of Ezra Pound
DESCRIPTION:“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. \nThe 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. \nThis 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. \nSundays\, 3-4:30 PM Pacific Time\nNov 19 & 26\,\nDecember 3\, 10 & 17\nJan 7\, 14 & 21\nSome scholarships available. \nAndrew 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/the-cantos-of-ezra-pound/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Workshop-The-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul E. Nelson":MAILTO:splabman@icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231124T200000
DTSTAMP:20231016T235306Z
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SUMMARY:Cascadian Zen Event at the Royal Block
DESCRIPTION:We are hosting a launch event for Cascadian Zen Vol. I at the Royal Block!\nTo celebrate the release of Cascadian Zen Vol. I\, we will be hosting a launch event at the Royal Block\, a hotel and art space in Waitsburg\, WA. Presenting and reading at this event will be Adelia MacWilliam\, Dr. Jason Wirth\, Paul Nelson and Sharon Thesen. Celebrate our accomplishment in poetry and place with us by joining the presenters at the event!
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/cascadian-zen-event-at-the-royal-block/
LOCATION:The Royal Block\, 222 MAIN STREET\, WAITSBURG\, WA\, 99361\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231124T210000
DTSTAMP:20231109T022809Z
CREATED:20231109T022809Z
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SUMMARY:Cascadian Zen Launch in Waitsburg
DESCRIPTION:Seattle-based poetry nonprofit Cascadia Poetics Lab anticipates multiple celebrations throughout the Cascadia bioregion to celebrate the release of their poetry anthology Cascadian Zen Vol. I\, published by Watershed Press. Among these celebrations will be a launch event at the Royal Block\, a hotel and art event space based in Waitsburg\, WA. The event will be taking place on November 24\, 2023 at 7 P.M. and is open to the public! READ MORE.
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/cascadian-zen-launch-in-waitsburg/
LOCATION:The Royal Block\, 222 MAIN STREET\, WAITSBURG\, WA\, 99361\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul E. Nelson":MAILTO:splabman@icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231126T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231126T163000
DTSTAMP:20230823T183420Z
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SUMMARY:The Cantos of Ezra Pound
DESCRIPTION:“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. \nThe 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. \nThis 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. \nSundays\, 3-4:30 PM Pacific Time\nNov 19 & 26\,\nDecember 3\, 10 & 17\nJan 7\, 14 & 21\nSome scholarships available. \nAndrew 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/the-cantos-of-ezra-pound-2/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Workshop-The-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul E. Nelson":MAILTO:splabman@icloud.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231129
DTSTAMP:20230912T205504Z
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SUMMARY:Giving Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate radical generosity\nGiving Tuesday is a national movement held every year on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving with the intention of spreading generosity. Everyone is encouraged to participate however they can\, and the Giving Tuesday website has multiple ideas for individuals and organizations to give today. \nCascadia Poetics Lab is a nonprofit organization with the mission of empowering people to practice poetry and deepen connections to place\, self and the present moment. Through our programs\, we aim to converge self-knowledge\, bioregionalism and creativity. Donations to Cascadia Poetics Lab are always welcome and appreciated! Happy Giving!
URL:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/event/giving-tuesday/
LOCATION:Cascadia Poetics Lab
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