by Veronica Martinez | Aug 10, 2025
What does it mean to be here? What practices help reconnect a person to a place? How does this manifest in Cascadia as opposed to other bioregions, places? What are poets doing to respond to the realities of the United States moving toward an authoritarian style of...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 6, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
9th Cascadia Poetry Festival Oct. 10-12 What does it mean to be here? How does one connect more deeply to a place, and how does this manifest in Cascadia? How can we, as poets, artists and creatives, respond to and interact with a country spiraling into...
by Veronica Martinez | Jun 14, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
On Sunday November 3, 2024, we opened the last day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a reading inside Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, WA. Gathering around the majestic 60 foot-long nurse log, we enjoyed readings by Robert Michael Pyle,...
by Veronica Martinez | May 12, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
May 18 is Cascadia Day and the anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. On Cascadia Day, we celebrate the Cascadia bioregion in all of its breathtaking beauty, dynamism and ferocity, and we take the time to spread awareness of bioregionalism. Cascadia BioFi...
by Veronica Martinez | Apr 13, 2025
The Cascadia BioFi Conference, held May 16–18, 2025, at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle, will bring together leaders at the edges of finance, circular economy, land regeneration, indigenous rematriation, community art, technology, and participatory...
