by Ryukan | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
The Cascadia Poetry Festival (March 23-25, 2012, at SPLAB) seeks to examine the culture of this region by gathering poets from the California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, the Alaska panhandle and Western Montana at SPLAB, in the most diverse zip code...
by Ryukan | Nov 12, 2011 | Blog
From Alex Bleecker: we’re so excited – we mean last breadline of 2012 – next wed! we’re featuring the indomitable poetry of doug nufer, the storytelling skills of auntmama & friends, and the electro-poetic oddity that is queequeg (daniel...
by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog
Ted Berrigan (Nov. 15, 1934-July 4, 1983) was a master practitioner of a multiplicity of strategies for making poems, among them appropriation, collage, collaboration, misreadings and mistranslations, found poetry, and list poems. In his mix of voices and sources he...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula —from “Ursonate” by Kurt Schwitters One thing that seems to distinguish poems from prose is sound. I hope for us to consider the relationship of primal sound to the...
by Ryukan | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
From Spankstra Press: Do you remember Scooby-Doo? Well, this announcement has nothing to do with that. Do you remember SPREAD: The Monthly Journal of Poetry? It was a free poetry zine passed out around Seattle from October 2000 to July 2003. It featured the works of...
