SEATTLE, WA, August 12, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- From October 10-12, 2025, Seattle-based poetry nonprofit Cascadia Poetics Lab will be hosting writing workshops, panel discussions and readings featuring prominent poets and academics from the Cascadia bioregion and beyond. Featured events and offerings will be hosted at the Rainier Beach Community Club, Kubota Garden and Redwing Café.
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/ and a complete schedule of the event can be found here: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/2025-cascadia-poetry-festival-9-schedule/.
Cascadia Poetics Lab, a Seattle-based nonprofit, was founded in Auburn, Washington, on December 14, 1993. Founding Director Paul E. Nelson is available for interviews. (206) 422.5002 or pen@cascadiapoeticslab.org
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