by Ryukan | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog
For the first year SPLAB is participating in the Seattle Foundation’s Give Big program. The Seattle Foundation was a supporter of SPLAB from back in our Auburn days (1997-2004), and our 2016 goal is modest, $3,500. We want to guarantee a sold-out house for the...
by Ryukan | Apr 20, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A follow up to the post about my recent trip to Taos, New Mexico. Amalio Madueño is community development specialist and brilliant poet of Yaqui and Tarahumara heritage. I am indebted to Amalio for the thousands of dollars of assistance he’s given to SPLAB and...
by Ryukan | Apr 19, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
ANOTHER devil reference in this latest of the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest and an image of one to boot. I love how the neighbors across the street use a pole with netting at the end to harvest plums. See all poems I wrote in Summer 2015...
by Ryukan | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog
Deadline April 20! PageBoy Magazine, a local and renowned Seattle-area publication, is accepting submissions for its upcoming (May-ish) issue. Submissions will not be accepted after 4/20, so the clock is, as they say, ticking! More info on the process and...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
If you believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine, you know the lung/heart meridian is related to grief. I can’t help thinking that anytime someone has a smoking habit, grief must not be far away. Combine that kind of thinking (radical/root-oriented) with the fact...
