A 5-week online Cascadian poetry workshop, on zoom.

This is a workshop in poetic fusion. Cascadia began with a language that united cultures: Chinook Wawa. This series of workshops expands its gift of integration between the ancient languages of the Columbia and its new languages, French and English. To do so, it draws in American, Canadian, Wawa and North European poetries, with a concentration on opening doorways.

Click this link for more information about the workshop The Poetics of Cascadian Land and Water

Saturdays 3-5:00 PM Pacific Time
January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7

Cost: $125.00

Our current media landscape seems hooked on a doom loop, an apocalyptic dream of human self-annihilation from collapsing nation states and anarchy to climate change to AI terminators, to genocidal warmongering. In order to avoid going down with that ship, we, as humans, are going to need to flip the script, to learn to think differently.

Click this link for more information about the workshop Thinkingwith: Writing Strategies for Reconnecting to Earth.

Sundays 3-5:00 PM Pacific Time
February 15, 22, March 1, 8, and 15, 2026

thinkingwith: writing strategies for reconnecting to earth

Our current media landscape seems hooked on a doom loop, an apocalyptic dream of human self-annihilation from collapsing nation states and anarchy to climate change to AI terminators, to genocidal warmongering. In order to avoid going down with that ship, we, as humans, are going to need to flip the script, to learn to think differently.

Click this link for more information about the workshop Thinkingwith: Writing Strategies for Reconnecting to Earth.

Sundays 3-5:00 PM Pacific Time
February 15, 22, March 1, 8, and 15, 2026

Life as Rehearsal for the Poem (LARFP)

• Sundays 3-5 PM PDT
• March 29, April 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2026

Poetics as Cosmology (PAC)

• Thursdays 3-5 PM PDT
• March 26, April 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2026

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.