by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog
The 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival is coming up April 30-May 3 and the Nanaimo Local Organizing Committee has been working their asses off. I am convinced their work will pay off. You know you can read your own work at the daily Living Room session? Consider attending...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog
I got this note via email this past week and thought you might be interested: Hello, My name is Kate Mazzera and I work for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a nonprofit committed to a world free of nuclear weapons. We are interested in promoting our “Barbara...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2015 | Blog
Mary Ann Moore has sent this wonderful invite to her poetry friends: Hello friends from afar (not that far): Nanaimo is filled with poetry! It’s the skin of our city, poet Kim Goldberg says. We have a poet laureate, Naomi Beth Wakan; a poem gallery (at the downtown...
by Ryukan | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog
Three guys who met at SPLAB and started one of Seattle’s top poetry readings are putting together an anthology and need some funding. From Alex Bleecker: Hello artists, friends, and family members of the illustrious line of bread! We’ve been announcing...
by Ryukan | Mar 5, 2015 | Blog
The pub crawl is a tradition that goes back to the 19th century. A group gets together and drinks in a series of bars. Maybe the participants are new to a town. In Australia they had over 4,000 people do a pub crawl once, a Guinness world record. LIT Crawls go back...