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 | 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 | Oct 31, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CPF8 Sunday Schedule The 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival begins TOMORROW! We can’t wait to celebrate poetry and place in Cascadia with everyone! Gold Passes are still available, so if haven’t registered yet, or if you know someone that would be interested in...
by Veronica Martinez | Sep 1, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Register now for Cascadia Poetry Festival 8! The 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival will be held November 1-3, 2024 at the Richard Hugo House, Spring Street Center and Newkam Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park. The festival will be a celebration of the release of...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Your humble narrator traveled to Astoria, Oregon to hear the launch of The Last Man in Willapa, the new book of poems from poet/lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle. There is such a tightly-knit poetry community in Astoria. Maybe it’s because of the annual...