Cascadia Poetry Festival 10/10-10/12

Fri Oct 10 2025 at 09:00 am to 10:00 pm UTC-07:00

Rainier Beach Community Club | Seattle

Cascadia Poetics Lab
Publisher/HostCascadia Poetics Lab
Cascadia Poetry Festival 10\/10-10\/12
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About this Event

The Cascadia Poetry Festival is a gathering of poets and bioregionalists exploring poetry’s connection to environmental, political, historical and sociological pursuits within the Cascadia bioregion. The festival aims to consider how prioritizing natural and cultural boundaries, rather than arbitrary political ones, can address climate change and other pressing social and political issues. Featured speakers include Brenda Cárdenas, Jim Dott, Brenda Hillman, Zach Charles, Roberto Harrison, Alicia Hokanson, Robert Lashley, Lorin Medley, Rhea Melina, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Roxi Power, Robert Michael Pyle, Paul Nelson, Sharon Thesen, Matt Trease, Jason Wirth and Katie Sarah Zale. Featured workshops will explore the practices of ekphrasis, investigation, lyric and form, the connection between internal and external worlds and poetry in times of crisis. An afterparty will be hosted by Greg Bem of Carbonation Press and Cascadia 2050, Cascadia Poetics Lab’s youth initiative, at Jude’s in Rainier Beach.

Sponsors of the Festival include 4Culture, Creative West, National Endowment for the Arts, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, ArtsFund, La Sala, Subud Greater Seattle and ArtsWA.

Registration for an gold passes, workshop packages, reading packages and student passes are available now via the festival website: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/cascadia-poetry-festival-9/. More information on the festival and Cascadia Poetics Lab’s additional offerings are available at https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/.


Agenda

🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Friday Registration
🕑: 09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Workshops

Info: Ekphrasis: Writing Inspired by Visual Art- Brenda Cardenas;
Writing Poetry: A Narrow Path to the Interior- Katie Sarah Zale;
Poetry as Interventionist Event- Roxi Power;
Blooming Difference: Exploring poetry, microcuentos and memoir at the Kubota- Garden with Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs!


🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 AM
Lunch
🕑: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Workshops

Info: Eco Workshop with Brenda Hillman- Brenda Hillman; Investigative Poetry-Sharon Thesen; Open Churchyard: Lyric and Form For People Who Hate Lyric and Form-Robert Lashley; Workshop Information Coming Soon-Matt Trease


🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Saturday Invocation
🕑: 09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Saturday Panels

Info: Panel 1: The Practice of the Self, Practice of Cascadia: Jill Lapointe, Alicia Hokanson, Lorin Medley, Brandon Letsinger, Robert Michael Pyle, Jason Wirth emcee; Panel 2: Resistance Roxi Power, Roberto Harrison, Katie Sarah Zale, Brenda Cardenas, Brenda Hillman, Jason Wirth moderator


🕑: 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Saturday Lunch
🕑: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Saturday Carbonation Press Showcase

Info: Greg Bem, Zach Charles, Matt Trease, Theresa Whitehill, Paul E Nelson

Lorin Medley, Jim Dott, Katie Sarah Zale, Brenda Cardenas. Matt Trease emcee.


🕑: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Saturday Cascadia monopoem

Info: One poem per poet, no introductions. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, emcee.


🕑: 09:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Saturday Cascadia Unfiltered

Info: with Greg Bem, Veronica Martinez, and Nadine Maestas


🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Sunday Introduction

Info: Learn about Cascadia Poetics LAB with board members and key volunteers at Red Wing Cafe


🕑: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Sunday Kubota reading

Info: Roxi Power, Alicia Hokanson, Robert Michael Pyle. Jason Wirth emcee.


🕑: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sunday Lunch
🕑: 03:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Sunday Winter in America (Again Poets Respond to 2024 Election Reading

Info: Paul E Nelson emcee.


🕑: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Sunday Dinner
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Rainier Beach Community Club, 6038 South Pilgrim Street, Seattle, United States

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