by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
The Poetry Postcard Festival inspired me to create what it creates: community. I joined for the first time last year and last year I launched the first annual speculative poetry, postcard exchange. For World Postcard Day 2025, I created two postcards that I...
by Ryukan | Sep 7, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We are humbled and grateful to La Sala for their support of the 10th Cascadia Poetry Festival, October 9-11, 2026, at the Rainier Beach Community Club and Kubota Garden. As a way of supporting the festival in accordance with their mission, they are helping to pay for...
by Ryukan | Sep 7, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Cascadia Poetry Festival
On a bluebird morning, we left the stunning beauty and stillness of Chinook Beach Park on Lake Washington to walk up to Kubota Gardens. A public park since 1987, the 20-acre gardens are the legacy of Japanese immigrant Fujitaro Kubota. His is a story of persistence...
by Ryukan | Sep 3, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Our end-of-the-fest open mic had many surprising moments, from impressions of a chicken’s “moancluck” to batshit poems written while drunk to an opportunity to send a postcard to the former First Lady of Iceland. With a continuum from beginners to...
by Ryukan | Sep 1, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Dear Postcard Poet, I’ve read reports on social media about people dropping their last few postcards into a mailbox yesterday and so the fest is not REALLY over, but here at the bioregional HQ of the Cascadia Poetics Lab, we’re focused on 2027 which will...
by Ryukan | Aug 27, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
subDuctiOn 1) a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth’s mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. 2) A reading series that reflects an emerging biodemocracy displacing a...
by Ryukan | Aug 26, 2026 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
On September 1, 2026, from 5-6:30pm PDT we’ll have an open mic for 2026 PPF participants only. It will be the day after the 20th Poetry Postcard Fest officially ends and hopefully by 5pm you will have signed up for year 21, starting July 4, 2027. Please bring...
by Ryukan | Aug 26, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
I got word from Richard Meadows that John Brehm died August 24, 2026. In 2022 (see below) I had a chance to interview him, publish a couple of his poems in Cascadian Zen Volume I and read with him in Portland for Cascadian Zen. A kind man who had a tough time the last...
by Ryukan | Aug 18, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
From David Gilmour: “Very sad news for Thursday, 13th August 2026: Koon Woon, aka Paper Son, departed just after 1:00 pm. Calling the shots himself, accompanied by his loving, comforting family and friends, assisted by his dearest friend and ex-wife, Susan...
by Ryukan | Aug 14, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
CASCADIA POETICS LAB TO HOST 10TH ANNIVERSARY CASCADIA POETRY FESTIVAL What does it mean to be a part of a community? How do we continue to create art in an increasingly chaotic world? Explore these topics and celebrate the poetry of Cascadia at the 10th annual...
by Ryukan | Aug 14, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Our neighborhood creek, Mapes Creek or dxʷwuqʷəb in Lushootseed, which runs through Kubota Garden here in Rainier Beach, is a jewel that few people know even exists. That is because most of its course it runs through a pipe. A good section of the creek, in Be’er...
by Ryukan | Aug 5, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
Thanks in large part to the dedication of the List Goddesses, Megan Durham and Saga Sundström, & to Poetry Postcard Fest committee member Zach Charles, the 20th Poetry Postcard Fest featured the largest participation, 623 registrants total with 46 different U.S....
by Zach Charles | Jul 27, 2026 | CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
Postcard trees 10-24 Postcard trees 25-38 Postcard trees 39-51 Postcard trees 52 Postcard trees 53-59 Postcard trees 1-9 I will write another essay with a more full reflection on my recent performance at the Columbia City Theater, in concert with dancer,...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jul 26, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, CPL 2050
REGISTER HERE On Saturday, September 26, from 3 – 5pm, Cascadia 2050 will be hosting a workshop titled: I Want to Write a Poem (But Don’t Know How). Cost: free, suggested donation $25. This will be the second workshop aiming to demystify the process of...
by Ryukan | Jul 24, 2026 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcastb
Interview with Nicole Cromartie and Katie Wilson-Best of the Clyfford Still Museum on the exhibit Tell Clyfford I Said Hi, done in partnership with the Colville Confederated Tribes of Nespelem, Washington. Recorded at 2:22pm on July 22, 2026 via Zoom. What a great...
