by Ryukan | Mar 22, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Books
The first printing of Cascadian Zen Volume I: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now has sold out and a deluxe edition is available. Proceeds from sales of these rare books will help fund the publication of Cascadian Zen Volume II due in Fall 2024. The launch...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Cascadia Poetics Lab is thrilled to be working with a community group here in Rainier Beach that seeks to create greater awareness of e creek that comes out of the ground south of legendary Kubota Garden, runs through a series of ponds there, through a ravine and...
by Ryukan | Feb 27, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
Tessa Hulls and I met when she donated a poster for the 2013 edition of the Allen Ginsberg Open Mic Poetry marathon. On February 20, 2024 I caught up with her on Zoom to discuss her first book, a graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts. What a joy it was to reconnect with...
by Ryukan | Feb 19, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
From Adelia MacWilliam, Board Member, Cascadia Poetics Lab: Anyone writing poetry today has been influenced by Ezra Pound’s work whether they have read him or not. I have always been a fan of Pound’s much-anthologized translations in his book Cathay, important because...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It may have taken 60 years, deaths of her sister and mother and a season of catastrophic forest fires to bring it out, but Roxi Power has a book of poems and it is entitled The Songs That Objects Would Sing. A poet, performer and labor activist, a professor at the...
