Background: EcoRegions of Cascadia, Copyright © 2022 David McCloskey, Cascadia Institute; available from Feathered Star Productions.
life as rehearsal for the poem (LARFP) cascadian zen basket four: Borders Without Binaries
A five week online (Zoom) workshop best suited for continuing participants and more experienced poets (open to open form) in workshops facilitated by Cascadia Poetics Lab and Poetry Postcard Fest Co-Founder Paul E Nelson. Participate 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 20205, we will explore passages from Cascadian Zen Vol 2 – Basket Four, and related texts and assignments. How can one’s poetics be a cosmology and how can one maintain some experience of the Poetry Postcard Fest, & allow one’s life as a creative participant in the world to rise in one’s personal hierarchy of duties/activities? How is the projective poem an antidote to Silicon Valley attention fracking? $250 for each five week session per person, scholarships are available. Sunday nights, 3-5pm PDT (January 5, 12, 19, 26, and February 2, 2025) by invitation only. Preference given to participants who wish to commit to both five-week sessions in the 2025 season.
January 5, 12, 19, 26, 2025
February 2, 2025
Link to purchase Cascadian Zen Volume 2
by invitation only. Zoom link: (to be announced)
Course Materials Week One
(Sunday, January 5, 2025, 3-5 pm PDT)
Write: Winter in America (Again (exercise)
Write: Winter in America (Again
Read: Cascadian Zen Vol. I, Basket Three (Pages 336-356)
Read: Wisconsin Wicca (for the Solstice)
Listen: Winter in America (Again playlist
Course Materials Week Two
(Sunday, January 12, 2025, 3-5 pm PDT)
Read: information coming soon
Listen: information coming soon
Course Materials Week Three
(Sunday, January 19, 2025, 3-5 pm PDT)
Read: information coming soon
Listen: information coming soon
Course Materials Week Four
(Sunday, January 26, 2025, 3-5 pm PDT)
Read: information coming soon
Listen: information coming soon
Course Materials Week Five
(Sunday, February 2, 2025, 3-5 pm PDT)
Read: information coming soon
Listen: information coming soon