Cascadia Poetics Lab

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“Cascadian Prophets Podcast produces in depth interviews with poets, authors, indigenous leaders & culture workers. It is hosted by CPL Founding Director Paul E Nelson, who was a radio broadcaster for 26 years and has conducted over 800 interviews. Archives from the syndicated radio program are held at the White River Valley Museum in Auburn. 10 original podcasts are expected to be produced in 2025, along with 12 podcasts derived from our extensive audio archives. Podcast guests/subjects so far in 2025 include Paul E Nelson interviewed by Audio Assistant Zach Charles on the 19th Poetry Postcard Fest; Poet Anne Tardos on The Always Already Absent Present, Jewell James, Master Carver and Director of the Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office with the Lummi Nation, poet Andrew Schelling on Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers, BC Indigenous painter and activist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun on Unceded Territories and George Draffan on the Global Assault on Forests. Life as Rehearsal for the Poem Workshop JAN-FEB: Participants engage in reading and discussion of foundational essays, interviews, listening and other assignments, as well as spontaneous poetry composition exercises, in the first of three five week courses to happen before the next postcard season. In Winter 2025, we will explore passages from Cascadian Zen Vol 2 Basket Four, and related texts and assignments. How can ones poetics be a cosmology and how can one maintain some experience of the Poetry Postcard Fest, & allow ones life as a creative participant in the world to rise in ones personal hierarchy of duties/activities? How is the projective poem an antidote to Silicon Valley attention fracking? Zach Charles Book Launch Hugo House January 22, celebrating our Audio Assistants and new Board Members first book of poetry. Poetics as Cosmology Workshop JAN-FEB: Participants engage in reading and discussion of foundational essays, interviews, listening and other assignments, as well as spontaneous poetry composition exercises, in the second of three, five week courses to happen before next postcard season. In Winter 2025, we will explore passages from Cascadian Zen Vol II Basket Four, and related texts and assignments. How can ones poetics be a cosmology and maintain some experience of the Poetry Postcard Fest, to allow ones life as a creative participant in the world to rise in ones personal hierarchy of duties/activities? How is the projective poem an antidote to Silicon Valley attention fracking? Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election: Zoom Launch January 20 & 21 from a book co-edited by Paul E Nelson, CPL Board Member Gabriella Gutirrez y Muhs and six other editors. Winter in America (Again: reading S.U. February 20. Sam Hamills Narrow Road Workshop FEB-MAR: Poet, translator, editor, Zen Buddhist, co-founder of Copper Canyon Press, and activist for Poets Against (the)War, Sam Hamill devoted his whole life to the practice of writing poetry. The following topics are foundational for this generative workshop: how ancient poetic traditions still define quality poetry, the Beat poets, the long poetic sequence, poetry as political, and the role of reflection and emotion. Facilitator Katie Sarah Zale is writing a biography on Hamills life and legacy. Three talks at Christo Rey High School FEB 24 & 25: on bioregionalism. ThinkingWith Workshop MARAPR: This lab facilitated by Matt Trease focused on writing strategies, applicable for poetry or prose, for breaking the spell that objectifies and cuts us off from the earth and from place and all the living beings that we (often) obliviously live in relationship with. Well do that by intentionally widening the socially-imposed conventions of normal perception via some minor alterations to our daily writing practices. As a trail guide in this 5-week excursion, participants read through the first section of Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth by the late he”