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
Nature Talk by Flávia Rocha virtual launch
On Sunday, 23 February, 2025, Brazilian poet Flávia Rocha launched her new book, Nature Talk, published by Carbonation Press, on Zoom with poets and...
Cascadia 2050 at Seattle University
On February 21, 2025, Zach Charles and I (Veronica Martinez) visited Seattle University to talk about Cascadia 2050, CPL's youth initiative, to one...
CPF8 Issei Zen Panel Video
We opened our second day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on Saturday, November 2, 2024 with a panel entitled "Issei Zen & Other Migrations."...
Support the Poetry Postcard Fest!
The season for postcards is approaching, and Cascadia Poetics Lab needs your support for another year of postcards and poetry! The Poetry Postcard...
Readings from Winter in America (Again at Seattle U
On Tuesday, 4 February 2025, I was honored to take part in the first public reading of Winter in America (Again. This anthology, published by...
Help Katie Sarah Zale Write Sam Hamill’s Biography
Katie Sarah Zale, writer, co-editor of Winter in America (Again and facilitator of the CPL workshop Sam Hamill's Narrow Road to the Interior, is...
Postcard Poet Maureen Kane Publishes Poetry Collection
Mycelium: Poetry of Connection published by postcard poet Maureen Kane Postcard poet Maureen Sandra Kane has published a new poetry collection,...
Winter in America (Again Audio from Seattle Feb 5, 2025
Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election was launched last night in Seattle University's Sinegal 110. Co-sponsored by the Seattle U...
Andrew Schelling on Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers
It is said of the poetry of Andrew Schelling that he is “locating language in watersheds and continental ridges, in rocks and plants. A poet of...
Cascadia Poetics LAB Blog
Communal Reading of Midwinter Day on Dec. 21!
Communal reading of Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day On December 21st, 2025 at Common Objects in Seattle (2601 1st Ave), celebrate the winter...
World Meditation Day 2025 Dec. 21
Celebrate World Meditation Day on December 21, 2025! From the Art of Living Foundation: On the Longest Night, Find the Light Within The winter...
Register for Winter 2026 Workshops!
CPL Winter 2026 Workshops! Keep your poetic light shining bright during the dark winter days with Cascadia Poetics Lab workshops! We're excited to...
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.
Peter Levitt on Translating Cold Mountain
The latest and perhaps most complete translation of Han Shan has been done by Levitt in collaboration with Kazuaki Tanahashi and published by Shambhala Press.
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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.