by Veronica Martinez | Oct 23, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Register for Fall 2025 Life as Rehearsal for the Poem and Poetics as Cosmology! Fall 2025 Life as Rehearsal for the Poem and Poetics as Cosmology, facilitated by CPL Founding Director Paul E. Nelson, begin next week! Register now to join these open form-focused...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 15, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Looking for inspiration to write poetry post-PPF? Consider Levertov’s Words Left in Your Pocket Exercise Read Denise Levertov’s poem “September 1961” below, paying extra attention to the lines regarding the death of predecessor poets, three (Ezra Pound, William Carlos...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 4, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Now that the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest is finished, we still have some writing exercises for postcard poets to continue developing your poetic practice. Whether your preparing for the 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest or would just like to continue the poetry writing momentum...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 1, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics Lab Fall 2025 Workshops We hope everyone had a rejuvenating and sunny summer! Fall is fast approaching, which means our fall 2025 workshops are beginning soon! Registration is still available for all workshops. Discounts are available to CPL...
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...
