by Ryukan | May 20, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Allen Ginsberg earned $701 dollars in 1956 from Pacific Greyhound Lines and yet he had plenty of time to dedicate to his true calling, that of poet and cutural activist unlike few poets of the 20th century. Why is that? The cost of living in USAmerica in 1956 had an...
by Ryukan | Feb 5, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election was launched last night in Seattle University’s Sinegal 110. Co-sponsored by the Seattle U Philosophy Department, Chaired by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, the reading started with Dr. Wirth, the only non-poet in...
by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2025 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
On November 6, 2024, the day after the USAmerican presidential election, Katie Sarah Zale called me to see how I was doing and to ask what I thought Sam Hamill would do in response to the election. Sam would have called his poet friends and created an anthology. We...
by Ryukan | Jan 4, 2025 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Hello, My name is Ricardo de la Torre and I work as Curator of Art and Music at Lakewold Gardens. We are a historically recognized public garden and non-profit organization in Lakewood, WA and we host an annual Winter Garden Poetry event. Alongside it we put out a...
by Ryukan | Dec 15, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
We caught up with Harold Rhenisch at what seemed like a good halfway point between Seattle, WA and Vernon, BC, Harrison Hot Springs. After an excellent breakfast at Muddy Waters Café, our chat on Wednesday, December 4 happened at 11am and featured Harold reading a few...
