by Ryukan | Mar 23, 2018 | Blog
The Cascadia Poetry Festival will not happen in 2018. While we work on a new home for the main festival after hosting it in Tacoma last year, Seattle in 2012, 2014, 2016, guiding the event in Nanaimo, BC, in 2015, and also helping to guide the 2017 version in...
by Ryukan | Mar 20, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The launch of 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards, an anthology that was ten years in the making is finally happening in the Bay Area THIS WEEKEND! Ina Roy-Faderman has worked tirelessly to help create this book and set up these readings and I am looking forward to...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog
I consider him the dean of Washington poets. Sam Hamill’s poetry life has manifested in an oeuvre that is quintessentially Cascadian, influenced by Asian wisdom culture, deeply connected to place and will soon find its place in world literature. His work as...
by Ryukan | Mar 11, 2018 | Blog
From Sarah Zale: Call for Poems: Death Penalty The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill? ― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice...
by Ryukan | Feb 25, 2018 | Blog
Wendy Call 5 March 2018 Jude’s Old Town Rainier Beach, 9252 57th Ave S Seattle WA 98118 (206)420-4889 The open mike starts at 8:00 (with sign-up prior to that). Wendy will come on between 8:40 and 8:50 and give us 20 minutes or so of work. (photo by Kathy...
