by Ryukan | Jun 22, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
It was Matt Trease who turned my attention to an interview that Eileen Myles gave in 2015 in which she said: There is still a lot of power built up around mainstream poetry. People are afraid to give America anything but comfort. It’s like an ad for guilt. Even...
by Ryukan | May 29, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Postcards from Mapes Creek on June 8! Join us on June 8, 2025 from 4-7 PM at Mapes Creek for a community poetry postcard gathering! At the mouth of Mapes Creek, we will gather with a postcard collage table, food and an open mic for reading postcard poems. This is a...
by Ryukan | May 22, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
From Judy Kleinberg: We had an excellent discussion of writing to incarcerated people last night in the Zoom Room. Hosted by Zach Charles and featuring Betty King of Bisbee, Arizona, Matt Trease of the CPL board, Katie Sarah Zale, who is a poet and teacher who works...
by Ryukan | May 20, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Allen Ginsberg earned $701 dollars in 1956 from Pacific Greyhound Lines and yet he had plenty of time to dedicate to his true calling, that of poet and cutural activist unlike few poets of the 20th century. Why is that? The cost of living in USAmerica in 1956 had an...
by Ryukan | Feb 5, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election was launched last night in Seattle University’s Sinegal 110. Co-sponsored by the Seattle U Philosophy Department, Chaired by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, the reading started with Dr. Wirth, the only non-poet in...