Poetry Postcard Activations
Free Poetry & Community Events in Rainier Beach!
Postcarding & DaySinging 2026 Workshop
This session will be a presentation of how the postcard fest developed, how the daysong developed, how I prepare for the fest and how participants attending prepare for the fest, as well as how to prepare for a successful daysong. The similarities of the daysong to serial poetry could be discussed, as well as the effort to put one’s self into the open, which has benefits in one’s own life. Registration is open to all registered 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest participants for a suggested donation starting at $1, which is the lowest our CRM will allow! See: https://bit.ly/4uwpnLG
Postcarding & DaySinging
- Sunday, June 14, 3-5 PM PDT
- Open to 2026 Poetry Postcard registrants who make a contribution. https://bit.ly/4uwpnLG
Cascadia Poetics LAB Blog
A Writing Exercise from Denise Levertov
Looking for inspiration to write poetry post-PPF? Consider Levertov’s Words Left in Your Pocket Exercise Read Denise Levertov’s poem “September...
Stephan Torre in Atlin, B.C.
What a great way to entice someone to read a book: "Like a prize-fighter boxing over his weight, Stephan Torre has long made his home in the...
2024 Annual Report
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Thankful Thursday: Curiosity & Care by Drew Myron
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Announcing the 1st Annual Charles Potts Poetry Award
Announcing the 1st Annual Charles Potts Poetry Award! The Charles Potts Poetry Award is a new award that will yearly present a writer with the...
Location Card-Nation Narration by Amy Friedman
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CPL Granted Community Accelerator Grant from ArtsFund
Cascadia Poetics Lab is excited to share that we are a recipient of a 2025 Community Accelerator Grant Fund by Allen Family Philanthropies and...
Poetry Postcard Fest ’25 Wrap Up ZoomParty
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...
Organic Poetry Exercise for Postcard Poets
Now that the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest is finished, we still have some writing exercises for postcard poets to continue developing your poetic...
Cascadia Poetics LAB Blog
Jerry Martien Reading at Seattle University
Jerry Martien Reading and Conversation and Seattle University On March 10, 2026 at 6 P.M. PST at the Stuart T. Rolfe Community Room (824 12th Ave,...
Cascadia 2050 Mission
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CPL Featured Poet – Logan Garner
CPL Featured Poets To continue to extend our gratitude to the generosity of our community, Cascadia Poetics Lab has decided to feature the work of...
Poetry Postcard Fest 2026
Early Bird Registration
The Poetry Postcard Fest is an annual 56-day experiment in spontaneity and community building. This literarary event is a self-guided workshop in spontaneous composition where people sign up to send 31 original poems on postcards to folks on a participation list before the end of August. The fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul E. Nelson and Lana Ayers, and has grown to include poets participating worldwide. Registration opens annually on September 1.
Tess Gallagher on Surrounded by Weasels and Josie Gray
To preserve a bit of one’s art is a true act of love, even if the book of stories it comes out of is titled Surrounded by Weasels: Stories from the Northwest of Ireland. The late Josie Gray is the story teller, and his widow Tess Gallagher, the world renowned poet, is the editor…
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We recognize that our home office is on the ancestral homeland of the Duwamish, Muckleshoot and other Coastal Salish tribes. Our dedication to bioregionalism is to co-exist on this land in the sacred manner as practiced by the traditional ways of these indigenous people.
Statement on Ahimsa by Board Member Jason Wirth
January 20, 2021
The (Poetry Postcard Fest) and the Cascadia Poetry Festival (are) connected… When you’re writing poetry… part of poetry is the craft… rules (to be understood) in a variety of contexts… (Craft is…) a necessary but not sufficient condition. You’re also… experiencing your mind, at a very deep level. And that mind as you experience it more deeply, is not in a vacuum… It’s now and here… rooted in the socio-economic and ecological conditions that make it possible. And participating in… the spiritual exercise of these postcards, is already entering into… a deep bioregional awakening and conversion. In a way we’re trying for something like a spiritual revolution, and that poetry is not just an interesting thing that you can do, if you like. It’s a fundamental exercise of being here in a less harmful way… it’s a deep ahimsa, a deep practice of non-harming and cultivation. And so, it’s all connected… And… our ambition is… trying to have a mind that would be capable, of being in this place in a better way… We’re going to live or die, by how we come down on these issues going forward.