CASCADIA POETICS LAB is a nonprofit organization and vibrant community whose workshops, festivals, and opportunities for connection can open the door to transformative experiences.

	Donate to Cascadia Poetics LAB Help Celebrate Give Big 2024 by donating to Cascadia Poetics LAB! The first 100 contributors who donate $100 or more will recieve tickets to our Poetry & Posole / Cascadia Day Celebration on May 18. Cascadia Poetics Lab We believe that poetry is the nexus at which self-knowledge, bioregionalism and expansive creativity converge. We seek to empower articulation of the heart-mind world of place via a democratic approach to poetry, the arts, restorative justice and other practices of intimate ecological awakening.
POETRY & POSOLE

Donate to Become a Founders Circle Member

Thanks for being a part of our place-based city of poets. We're deeply grateful to have the support of members like you. Through your donations, we empower people to practice poetry and deepen connections to place, self and the present moment. Join us in a year that leads to our 30th anniversary December 14, 2023 and during which we will resume our Cascadia Poetry Festival October 6-8, 2023 in Seattle. Founders Circle Members get first opportunity to purchase Gold Passes for that event. Please support the Cascadian Prophets podcast, the Cascadia Poetry Festival, the Poetry Postcard Festival (in year 18 in 2023) and online workshops such as Poetics as Cosmology and Life as Rehearsal for the Poem.

CASCADIA POETRY FESTIVAL		POETRY POSTCARD FEST
The Cascadia Poetry Festival started in in 2012 and is a regular gathering of poets and creatives with workshops and talks, hosted in the Pacific Northwest of the Cascadia Bioregion. We are excited to announce Cascadia Poetry Festival #8 November 1-3, 2024!		Founded in 2007, The Poetry Postcard Fest is an annual 56 day experiment in spontaneity and community-building where poets send 31 first-draft poems on postcards to other participants around the world. Registration opens annually on September 1!
CASCADIAN PROPHETS PODCAST		WORKSHOPS
The Cascadian Prophets Podcast was built upon the original work of Cascadia Poetics Lab's founder Paul Nelson as the foundation of Cascadia Poetics Lab. The Cascadian Prophets podcast produces in depth interviews with poets, authors, educators, indigenous leaders and other cultural workers, with a focus on promoting cultural activities toward sustaining the Cascadia bioregion, place and presence.		Workshops: Cascadia Poetics Lab hosts poetry workshops, available to the general community, with reading, writing and discussion exercises that intend on helping participants learn new techniques of expression and literary creativity while focusing on place and presence.
Events		Books
Events:  Cascadia Poetics Lab hosts poetry reading events in partnership with other cultural organizations.		Books: Explore books created under our own imprint, Watershed Press. Featuring Cascadian Zen Volume I, an exquisite collection of poetry, essays, interviews, and art that embody Zen here and now in the Cascadia Bioregion.

Empowering people to practice poetry & deepen connections to place, self & the present moment.

What timely alchemy is this? Poetics as Cosmology with readings from Brenda Hillman’s In a Few Minutes Before Later got me writing again. For five weeks, I’ve been breathing in from an open field and exhaling without the usual constrictions of thought and form. Paul Nelson throws the raw materials in a pot: a group of new and seasoned writers, all things organic and serial, and then stirs in various prompts and excitements. There’s a whole lot of heart, mind, and soul scholarship on offer here. Paul is the real deal.

– Lorin Medley, Comox, BC, Feb, 2023

Goal:

400 supporters at $100 per year. 

4 poetry heroes at $20,000 per year. 

One God/Goddess at $80,000 per year.