by Ryukan | Jun 3, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Hard to believe it is one month until the start of the 2022 Poetry Postcard Fest. Registration is OPEN NOW and earlybird registration ends June 4. On Saturday, June 11 at 9am PDT, join fest co-founder Paul E Nelson for an EPIC post-fest EXERCISE. Sign up for Inside...
by Ryukan | May 27, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A year ago postcard poet Margaret Lee and I collaborated on an essay about the Poetry Postcard Fest and how it’s origins are indebted to the Black Mountain School of poetry. It was published by the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies. A year later, we...
by Ryukan | May 18, 2022 | Blog
That this organization is known as the Cascadia Poetics Lab is an ongoing homage to David McCloskey, the Father of Cascadia, who has worked for 50 years to bring a bioregional awareness to people living here. He has a new map, also highly evocative and beautiful, or...
by Ryukan | May 9, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Get your five page handout loaded with links, prompts and inspirations if you register for this one day workshop before June 10. Take a look inside our current workshop group that started after the 2020 Poetry Postcard Fest. We’ve been looking at how to engage...
by Ryukan | May 4, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It’s a pretty ambitious goal to write an epic poem in a day. Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, an epic about the daily routine written on Winter Solstice 1978, is like no other project that I know of, except for Canto Diurno #1. That 1986 poem by Pierre Joris is also...
