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...
by Ryukan | Apr 29, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Cascadian Zen editors are on the road again. This Tuesday, (APR 30, 2024) at 6pm, we close out National Poetry Month in style with a reading at Broadway Books in Portland. Details here:...
by Ryukan | Apr 25, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Since moving the world headquarters of the Cascadia Poetics Lab to Rainier Beach in July 2017, I have become enamored with Mapes Creek, or what the First People of this place called dxʷwuqʷəb – place of loon. It pops up out of the ground south of legendary...
by Ryukan | Apr 15, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
Here (below) is the audio version of my March 25, 2024 interview with Bill Porter on “Dancing With the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation.” We talked about his life, the movie and the film which chronicles his translation project. The Seattle...
by Ryukan | Mar 28, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Imagine growing up a poet in a state like Wisconsin and having to travel to Colorado to learn about the work of Lorine Niedecker, and furthermore to have one’s own consciousness changed by engagement with her work. Niedecker’s work, since her death in 1970, has...
