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...
by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, News
Cascadian Zen has received a wonderful reception from the regional Zen community. The Northwest Dharma Association published a blog post about the book. An excerpt: The original idea for the book and Watershed Press came from a small, literary arts organization called...
by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Books
On Friday, January 19, 2024 at 7pm, Arundel Books hosted a reading from Cascadian Zen. Two of the books three editors were there, Tetsuzen Jason Wirth and your humble narrator in his first public reading since taking on the Buddhist precepts in the Jukai ceremony,...
by Ryukan | Jan 2, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
The third and final part of my October 22, 2023 interview with Robert Bringhurst is presented here today and will be part of the upcoming book Cascadian Prophets: Interviews 1999-2023. The book will be launched at the 30th anniversary celebration of the Cascadia...
