by Zach Charles | Mar 19, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
On the Way to Kluusms is the first poetry chapbook to be published by Watershed Press, a bioregional press based in Seattle, but with strong connections to Vancouver Island. The author is Lorin Medley, whose poetry has been published in anthologies like Winter in...
by Veronica Martinez | Nov 28, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF9 Saturday Afternoon Reading On October 11, 2025, we continued he 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival with an afternoon reading. Matt Trease facilitated the reading and provided beautiful introductions for featured poets Lorin Medley, Jim Dott, Katie Sarah Zale and Brenda...
by Veronica Martinez | Nov 6, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF9 Invocation and Panel Video! On October 11, 2025, we started the second day of the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a invocation, land acknowledgment and panel at the Rainier Beach Community Club. The invocation and land acknowledgment featured Ken Workman, 5th...
by Veronica Martinez | Aug 30, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
The weekend of August 21-24, Paul Nelson and 3/4 of the Cascadia 2050 crew embarked on a journey to Cumberland, British Columbia for the Rain Shadow Poetry Festival! The first night of the festival, we celebrated the release of poet and CPL friend Lorin Medley’s...
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...
