by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Your humble narrator traveled to Astoria, Oregon to hear the launch of The Last Man in Willapa, the new book of poems from poet/lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle. There is such a tightly-knit poetry community in Astoria. Maybe it’s because of the annual...
by Ryukan | May 5, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Poetry and Posole Cascadia Day Celebrate the power of the natural world and the magnificence of the Cascadia bioregion with us on Cascadia Day, May 18th! In honor of the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be hosting a Poetry and...
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...
