by Ryukan | Apr 14, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
The board of the Cascadia Poetics Lab had its spring 2023 board retreat on Salt Spring Island. Our last retreat on the Long Beach Peninsula was a huge success and we made new friends in that part of the world. Promo poster by Roberta Hoffman is below. Here is the...
by Ryukan | Apr 6, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’m delighted to have a postcard poem in the new anthology I Sing the Salmon Home. It’s a book of poems by Washington state poets, curated by the last state Poet Laureate (and Lummi Tribal member Rena Priest) and published by Empty Bowl. From the...
by Ryukan | Mar 31, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before turning the lights out. It’s also been described as “protest beauty” and is the collaboration of a printer (really, a book artist) and a poet, who’ve created “a full...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime postcarder Joanna Thomas is having an exhibition of 40 or so of her “dear-so-and-so” postcards just in time for her 75th birthday! Happy Birthday Joey! Check it out: Earlybird registration for the 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest goes til June 4 and the...
by Ryukan | Mar 26, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
From David McCloskey: What end does politics serve? Surely it must serve ends beyond itself. Why seek greater bioregional autonomy? For self-determination. Yes, but what purpose in turn shall that value serve? None some may say, it’s self-justifying. But then it...
