This Giving Tuesday
Here’s how you can be a part of the generosity movement
Become a Supporter of Cascadia Poetics LAB
Thank you for being a part of the Cascadia Poetics LAB team. Together we can empower people to practice poetry and deepen connections to place, self & the present moment.
Thank you
Thank you to all participants and attendees that supported the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival! We hope to stage festivals at the Rainier Beach Community Club annually for years to come.
The festival had a budget of $30,000. We kept registration affordable for our community members and pay poets a modest stipend. A year-end donation helps us get through this difficult post-festival time. Given the state of our country right now, supporting true culture that is anchored to place is more important than ever and our costs have never been higher.
Please consider a year end donation or a podcast sponsorship. CPL turns 32 on December 14, 2025, and we can use support at this time to go into 2026 in a financially robust way.
We are living in a time of Whole Systems Transition.
We are living in a time of Whole Systems Transition. The people of the parenthesis, we live after the death of the old gods and before the birth of the new. One thing is certain and is a fundamental truth that gives us hope – together we can do extraordinary things. Whether that’s through donations to community organizations or assisting neighbors with everyday tasks, generosity makes a positive impact on the world. Acts of kindness and compassion are required now as much as any time in history.
Cascadia Poetics LAB is participating in Giving Tuesday December 2nd
the global day of unity and giving
As you know, our organization is a vibrant community whose workshops, festivals, and opportunities for connection can open the door to transformative experiences. Our recent Cascadia Poetry Festival (the 9th) garnered comments like: “Cascadia Poetry Festival might just be the last stronghold of a truly innovative and wide-ranging poetry event. It has not been colonized by academia or co-opted by special interests. I could hear salmon in the creeks, winds scouring the summits, water drain through the waterways of Cascadia. All of it backed by the hum of what humans do best: sing out their poetry.” Add to this our monthly Cascadian Prophets podcast, 19 years of the Poetry Postcard Fest, several other projects and the fact that our board is now 50% Latinx and you see how being at this for 31 years creates results and a lasting legacy.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation, tell your friends and family why you believe in our work and encourage them to support us too!
Here’s how you can be a part of the generosity movement:
$100
Founders Circle
Support the Cascadian Prophets Podcast, as well as our other offerings, and receive early opportunities to register for the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival.
$250
Reinhabitarian
You understand humans have to stop living like invaders & deeply connect to place & how the Cascadia Poetics LAB leads that effort via poetry, interviews, & other projects enabling deep connection to the Now & Here.
$1200
Cascadian Prophets Podcast Sponsor
Support the Poetry Postcard Fest, The Cascadia Poetry Festival, Online Workshops, Interviews, Interview Archive preservation & other activities. With a donation at this level we will include short announcements for your business or project.
CASCADIA POETICS LAB PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Learn more about some of our key projects
Cascadia Poetry Festival
The Cascadia Poetry Festival started in in 2012 and is a regular gathering of poets and creatives with workshops and talks, hosted in the Pacific Northwest of the Cascadia Bioregion. We are excited to announce Cascadia Poetry Festival #10 October 9-11, 2026!
Workshops
Cascadia Poetics Lab hosts poetry workshops, available to the general community, with reading, writing and discussion exercises that intend on helping participants learn new techniques of expression and literary creativity while focusing on place and presence.
Poetry Postcard Fest
Founded in 2007, The Poetry Postcard Fest is an annual 56 day experiment in spontaneity and community-building where poets send 31 first-draft poems on postcards to other participants around the world.
Registration opens annually on September 1!
Cascadian Prophets Podcast
The Cascadian Prophets Podcast was built upon the original work of Cascadia Poetics Lab’s founder Paul Nelson as the foundation of Cascadia Poetics Lab. The Cascadian Prophets podcast produces in depth interviews with poets, authors, educators, indigenous leaders and other cultural workers, with a focus on promoting cultural activities toward sustaining the Cascadia bioregion, place and presence.
Events
Cascadia Poetics Lab hosts poetry reading events in partnership with other cultural organizations.
Testimonials
“For a poet who has long invested time and energy in communities relating poetics to the land, to trees, to water, the Cascadia Poetry Festival is a high point–the opportunity to interact and hear and converse with poets who share a sense of the intrinsic connection between poetry and the earth, to have a chance to witness, hear, take in, poets of such a high caliber is deeply satisfying and inspiring.”
– Theresa Whitehill, poet, letterpress printer and graphic designer
Organization Data Summary
ORGANIZATION NAME
Cascadia Poetics LAB
TAX ID (EIN)
91-1618296
DEMOGRAPHICS
Hispanic & Latinx
ADDRESS
9030 Seward Park Ave S 213
Seattle, WA 98118
SERVICE AREAS
Seattle, WA, US
King County, WA, US
WA, US
US
BC, CA