by Zach Charles | Oct 18, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
or or As the planet heats up many animal species are either headed north or going extinct. This makes the work of the poet as witness that much more important. Who is here now? And as the culture becomes more and more reductionistic, a product of a human centric...
by Zach Charles | Aug 27, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On the morning of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Habib and Paul Nelson awoke before 6A and were hiking with full packs up to “Jack’s Shack.” But after an hour, maybe less, they knew they were not going to make it with those heavy packs. They dropped them and took...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 19, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry From Journalism Exercise The news is chaotic and constant these days, but this week we bring you an exercise that can help you harness it for your poetry this week- straight from one of our 2024 LifeAs Rehearsal For the Poem classes: If you have never written...
by Zach Charles | Oct 31, 2024 | Blog, podcast, podcastb
“The Beat Generation is one of the most formidable literary movements of the mid-to late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its innovative connections to emerging postmodernisms—collapsing boundaries among genres such as fiction, verse, and memoir; between...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 23, 2021 | Books
What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the...
