by Ryukan | Mar 3, 2012 | Blog
by Ryukan | Feb 24, 2012 | Blog
Abecedarians & Other Constraints This week we’ll take on the notion of the abecedarian and combine it with a page or two from a reference book containing an alphabetical listing of words–the dictionary. From early Hebrew poetry to Harryette Mullen,...
by Ryukan | Feb 21, 2012 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Exercise Ted Berrigan, Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer are among the more notable poets to engage in such a project. Berrigan’s book of them (A Certain Slant on Sunlight) was completed six months before his death in 1983. Alice Notley wrote: the cards as...
by Ryukan | Feb 20, 2012 | Blog
Hi Paul—will you consider filling this out and sending it to your connections? Thanks! Kathleen (P.S. The state’s new Poet Laureate will read at the Cascadia Poetry festival on March 25. Details here.) WASHINGTON STATE POETRY QUESTIONNAIRE My goal as 2012 –...
by Ryukan | Feb 14, 2012 | Blog
“Words can neither define nor explain” -Alan Watts It is not news that the world is in a constant state of flux (just ask the Fluxus poets, or Siddhartha Gautama). Ever-evolving, it parallels life itself; the only thing absolute is amorphousness. In his seminal...
