by Veronica Martinez | Dec 26, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Watch the CPF7 Saturday Night Readings! To close out our second day of Cascadia Poetry Festival 7, poet, teacher, astrologer and CPL board member Matt Trease hosted readings by Andrew Schelling, Cedar Sigo, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Tess Gallagher and Brenda...
by Veronica Martinez | Dec 20, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Watch the Cascadia Poetry Festival 7 Eco-Poetics Panel! On Saturday, October 7, 2023, we held the Eco-Poetics talk concurrently with Tess Gallagher’s “Simulating the Satori Moment in Poems” workshop. The Eco-Poetics panel featured Jan Zwicky, Andrew...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 26, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
A HUGE thank you to everyone that attended CPF7! On October 6-8, we hosted our 7th Cascadia Poetry Festival at Spring Street Center in Seattle, Washington, and we had a wonderful time! We are incredibly grateful for every poet and participant that celebrated the...
by Ryukan | Jun 29, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
In 2017 the great Zen poet Norman Fischer had this Facebook post: Poems are not necessarily supposed to do you any good. People think that poems have some meaning embedded in them and that the meaning can do you some good. But I think it’s the opposite: if poems do...
by Ryukan | Jan 1, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
I had the honor of conducting another interview with Brenda Hillman on December 12, 2022. The subject was her new book In A Few Minutes Before Later. It is wonderful to see a poet evolving in such a beautiful way as Brenda is, following her own “permission to be...
