by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
On November 6, 2024, the day after the USAmerican presidential election, Katie Sarah Zale called me to see how I was doing and to ask what I thought Sam Hamill would do in response to the election. Sam would have called his poet friends and created an anthology. We...
by Ryukan | Jan 4, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Hello, My name is Ricardo de la Torre and I work as Curator of Art and Music at Lakewold Gardens. We are a historically recognized public garden and non-profit organization in Lakewood, WA and we host an annual Winter Garden Poetry event. Alongside it we put out a...
by Ryukan | Dec 15, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
We caught up with Harold Rhenisch at what seemed like a good halfway point between Seattle, WA and Vernon, BC, Harrison Hot Springs. After an excellent breakfast at Muddy Waters Café, our chat on Wednesday, December 4 happened at 11am and featured Harold reading a few...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We will begin the process of documenting and reporting on all of the developments from the 8th Cascadia Poetry Festival on this blog in the next few weeks and months, including video of as much of the program as possible. In the meantime, huge thanks to all the...
by Ryukan | Oct 29, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Postcard poet Richard Osler died last night. Huge thanks to all postcard poets who wrote & sent a postcard poem to this fine human and poet. He accepted death like no one I have ever known. A book, his last love letter to life entitled What Holiness Will I Bring,...
