by Ryukan | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
We’ve asked the non-U.S. participants (of whom there are 23 so far) to see if they would like to have their addresses out there for folks who want to send bonus cards. The logic is that it takes a long time for cards to get to Europe and elsewhere, even to...
by Ryukan | Jun 6, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest D-Day is July 4 and already there are 14 groups of 32 poets each awaiting their list for the 18th Poetry Postcard Fest. Registration is open here: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/ppf-2024-event-registration/if you have a poet friend who has not yet...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Your humble narrator traveled to Astoria, Oregon to hear the launch of The Last Man in Willapa, the new book of poems from poet/lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle. There is such a tightly-knit poetry community in Astoria. Maybe it’s because of the annual...
by Ryukan | May 5, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Poetry and Posole Cascadia Day Celebrate the power of the natural world and the magnificence of the Cascadia bioregion with us on Cascadia Day, May 18th! In honor of the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be hosting a Poetry and...
by Ryukan | May 1, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
I think the first notion of land healing rituals came to me we hosted Diane di Prima at the old NW Spokenword Lab in Auburn November 1999. It might have been walking along the Stuck River when Diane and I talked about healing places and she mentioned the Tibetan...
