by Ryukan | Oct 15, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
The reviews are coming in for the 10th Cascadia Poetry Festival. Denise Calvetti-Michaels said: I spent Saturday and Sunday afternoon, October 9th and 10th, attending the tenth annual Cascadia Poetry Festival held at the Rainier Community Beach Club in Seattle. I...
by Ryukan | Oct 14, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Now that the dust has settled from the 10th Cascadia Poetry Festival, we want to announce officially that we are creating a Latinx-centric event called Los Cerezos Literary Festival, April 16-18, 2027, at Seattle U and Kubota Garden. We’ve created a committee to...
by Ryukan | Oct 1, 2026 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Michael Kennedy: Dear Paul, Thank you for the entire Postcard Poets experience. I found it positive, satisfying, and delightfully creative. Each week a smattering of postcards would arrive in my mailbox and I celebrated each event. Right after I got my list, I...
by Ryukan | Oct 1, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
subduction (noun): 1. a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth’s mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. 2. A reading series that reflects an emerging bio-democracy...
by Ryukan | Sep 30, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
From our friends at Watershed Press: This book features 11 conversations with Robert Bringhurst. Open this book to any page and you will find a compelling, plainspoken discussion of an interesting subject. It might be the relations between poetry and carpentry, the...