by Ryukan | Sep 28, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Want to learn about how candidates for King County District 2 stand on Arts & Culture? You have a chance to engage them and see the Founder of the Cascadia Poetics Lab read some poetry! Monday, October 5, 2026 @ 7:00 PMRainier Arts Center, 3515 S Alaska St,...
by Ryukan | Sep 14, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We are humbled and grateful to La Sala for their support of the 10th Cascadia Poetry Festival, October 9-11, 2026, at the Rainier Beach Community Club and Kubota Garden. As a way of supporting the festival in accordance with their mission, they are helping to pay for...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
The Poetry Postcard Festival inspired me to create what it creates: community. I joined for the first time last year and last year I launched the first annual speculative poetry, postcard exchange. For World Postcard Day 2025, I created two postcards that I...
by Ryukan | Sep 7, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Cascadia Poetry Festival
On a bluebird morning, we left the stunning beauty and stillness of Chinook Beach Park on Lake Washington to walk up to Kubota Gardens. A public park since 1987, the 20-acre gardens are the legacy of Japanese immigrant Fujitaro Kubota. His is a story of persistence...
by Ryukan | Sep 3, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Our end-of-the-fest open mic had many surprising moments, from impressions of a chicken’s “moancluck” to batshit poems written while drunk to an opportunity to send a postcard to the former First Lady of Iceland. With a continuum from beginners to...
