by Ryukan | Oct 19, 2009 | Events
Whew! We’re super busy gearing up for an incredible weekend at Bookfest. We’re sponsoring the Poetry Stage, and there’s a full line-up of incredible local poets. We’ve got volunteers lined up for our booth, marketing materials at the printer, and lots of little...
by Ryukan | Oct 18, 2009 | Events
Come to read new work for an intelligent critique, come to read someone else’s work that you find inspiring, or compelling, or come just to be in the engaging company of other writers. In the 2nd floor lounge of the Columbia City Cinema EVERY TUESDAY 7-9 PM, 4816...
by Ryukan | Oct 15, 2009 | Blog
Digging Lorca takes on new meaning with the news that the Spanish government may exhume what are believed to be his remains. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/16/lorca.spain.burial.site/index.html Remember, we’d never assassinate a poet in this country…just...
by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2009 | Blog
She was named by BUST magazine as “the rock star of modern poetry” & that would usually be the death knell for a poet in my book, but in the case of Eileen Myles, it’s only slightly hyperbolic. She was at Elliott Bay Book last night for a Wave Press authors event...
by Ryukan | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog
USAmericans LOVE their dead poets. Especially those who they can’t or aren’t able to understand during the poet’s life. Charles Olson is another case in point. Living in poverty at the end of his life in 1970, Charles Olson was the subject of a major panel, reading...
