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life as rehearsal for the poem (LARFP) cascadian zen basket three

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 Fall 2024, we will explore passages from Cascadian Zen Vol 1 – Basket Three, 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 (September 29, October 6, 13, 20, and 27) by invitation only. Preference given to participants who wish to commit to both five-week sessions in the 2024 season.

Sunday nights, 3-5 PM Pacific Time
September 29 – October 27, 2024

September 29
October 6, 13, 20, 27

Link to purchase Cascadian Zen Volume 1

by invitation only. Zoom link: (to be announced)