8th Cascadia Poetry Festival – all-day panels and Floricanto Cascadia
Please join us for the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival.
For registration/ticketing please go to Cascadia Poetry Festival
Saturday, November 2
Location: Richard Hugo House
9:00 – 9:30 am
Friends of the Cascadia Poetics Lab will have information tables and will be selling books in the area outside the performance hall: Raven Chronicles, Asterism Books, Cascadia Urban and Rural Coalition, Seattle Arts & Lectures and others.
Invocation
9:30 – 11:00 am
Panel 1: Issei Zen & Other Migrations, moderator Tetsuzen Jason Wirth. Panelists, Barbara Johns, Frank Abe, Sharon Hashimoto, Claudia Castro Luna & Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs.
Panel 2: Wilson’s Bowl, moderator Tetsuzen Jason Wirth. Panelists, Stephen Collis, Daphne Marlatt & Fred Wah.
Noon – 1:45 pm
Lunch/ Breakout Sessions:
Poetry Postcards, Remember the joy you felt when someone sent you a card in the mail? Remember the joy you felt when you sent a card in the mail? Stop by and make a postcard collage to send to someone and write a poem on the back! Write a poem inspired by a quote, by a nearby tree, or by the way the wind whistles in the gutters. Write a poem inspired by the events of the Cascadia Poetry Festival happening around you. And at the end, participate in the maintenance of our poetic community by signing up for the Poetry Postcard Fest to write (and receive!) 31 postcard poems this coming July and August! Hosted by Zach Charles and Sally Hedges-Blanquez.
Writing at Red Lights. Join Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs for a workshop centered on writing in places where you have little time.
CPL Workshop Preview. Join CPL Founder and workshop facilitator Paul E Nelson and CPL Board Member Matt Trease in a discussion of upcoming online workshops including Poetics as Cosmology, Life as Rehearsal for the Poem and Poet as Radio, as we discuss materials, the poetics of the Cascadia Poetics Lab and how to be more fully here and now in your bioregion.
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Cascadian Zen: Volume II with poets reading from the new anthology from Watershed Press: Carletta Wilson, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Stephen Collis, Claudia Castro Luna, Meredith Quartermain, Deborah Poe, Deborah Woodard, Rob Lewis, Jami Macarty.
7:00 – 9:00 pm
“Floricanto Cascadia” (“Flower and Song”/“Poetry”/“In Xochitl In Cuicatl”)
Opens with a Symphony of Cascadia Voices for the Dead on Day of the Dead, curated and conducted by Lorna Dee Cervantes, featuring Mexican, Raza/Chicanao, Latiné and other Indigenous American poets alongside Watershed Press poets and others. Open Mic follows. We’ll offer poems, flowers, fotos on altár Ofrenda to dead poets, our beloved dead, the unknown dead. Music. Tables. Free! (Donations accepted.) Hugo House bar & refreshments. Open to all. “The only things we humans leave behind when we die are our flowers and our songs.” –Nezahualcóyotl
