Poetics as Cosmology Cascadian Zen VII Baskets: Four – Borders Without Binaries & Five – Wilson’s Bowl

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 second of three five week courses to happen before the next postcard season. In Spring 2025, we will explore passages from Cascadian Zen Vol II – Baskets Four & Five, 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. Thursdays, 2-5pm PDT (April 3, 10, 17, 24, & May 1) by invitation only. Preference given to participants who wish to commit to both five-week sessions in the 2025 season.

April 3, 10, 17, & 24
May 1

Link to purchase Cascadian Zen Volume 2

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