by Veronica Martinez | Oct 28, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF9 Keynote Reading Video! On October 10, 2025 following concurrent breakout workshops, we started the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival with a keynote reading at the Rainier Beach Community Club. The reading featured poets Robert Lashley, Sharon Thesen, Roberto Harrison...
by Veronica Martinez | Oct 19, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF9 Highlights! We had an amazing time at the 9th Cascadia Poetry Festival, Oct. 10-12, 2025! It was amazing to see so many new and familiar faces join our community for a weekend of poetry, education and place. Thank you deeply to every presenter that traveled to...
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 | Jul 14, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Winter in America (Again Tour! Last week, the Winter in America (Again editors and contributors embarked on a mini book tour of Western Washington. Paul Nelson was joined by Roxi Power from California, allia abdullah-matta from New York, and Katie Sarah Zale from...
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...
