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 | 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 Ryukan | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog
From Nate Mackey: