Celebrate Cascadia Day THIS WEEKEND!

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...

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...

Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election @ Elliott Bay Books

by Ryukan | Apr 5, 2025

We are thrilled to do a reading and talk at legendary Elliott Bay Book Company, Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 7pm. The two organizing editors, Katie Sarah Zale, Paul E. Nelson will be joined by publisher Greg Bem and some local contributors. Registration is encouraged...

CPF8 Wilson’s Bowl Panel Video

by Veronica Martinez | Mar 18, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab

On the second day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on Saturday, November 2, 2024 we continued with a panel exploring Wilson’s Bowl and the work of Phyllis Webb. The panel featured poets and educators Stephen Collis, Daphne Marlatt and Fred Wah, moderated by...

CPF8 Issei Zen Panel Video

by Veronica Martinez | Feb 25, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab

We opened our second day of the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on Saturday, November 2, 2024 with a panel entitled “Issei Zen & Other Migrations.” The panel explores the work of writers that experienced the Japanese internment camps in America and the...