by Ryukan | Jun 29, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Ace Administrative Assistant Veronica Martinez has created a Cliff Notes version of the June 4, 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest Open House. See: As of this morning Group 15 is not quite full and final lists will go out to all groups that are full (1-14) as the fest begins...
by Ryukan | Jun 29, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
In 2017 the great Zen poet Norman Fischer had this Facebook post: Poems are not necessarily supposed to do you any good. People think that poems have some meaning embedded in them and that the meaning can do you some good. But I think it’s the opposite: if poems do...
by Ryukan | Jun 26, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
From Margaret Lee: My kids think I am hopelessly antiquated for sending email and actually reading the messages in my inbox every day. But when I double down on the whole retro mode and mail postcards, those cards end up on each recipient’s fridge for approximately 15...
by Ryukan | Jun 24, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Zach Charles: I would like to take this space to do two things. One: reflect on lessons from last year’s fest. Two: set some intentions for myself for this year’s fest. My first thought upon casting myself back to last year’s fest is of community...
by Ryukan | Jun 22, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
…It’s the vehicle for getting the offering to other poets. (from Sally Hedges-Blanquez) Here are a few things I’ve learned in the 5 years I’ve been a postcard poet: ● Postcards can be made from boxes you were planning to recycle. (Triscuits,Grape Nut Flakes,...
by Ryukan | Jun 21, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Judy Kleinberg: If you’re a newcomer to the Poetry Postcard Fest, you may be uncertain about the “right way” to do this crazy thing of writing and sending poems on postcards. Let me just assure you: there is no wrong way. That said, from the perspective of...
by Ryukan | Jun 18, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The Poetry Postcard Fest is my most consistent experience with what Paul (Paul E Nelson, founding director of Cascadia Poetics Lab and co-founder of the postcard fest) calls “practicing spontaneity.” Intellectually, I know what spontaneous creativity is....
by Ryukan | Jun 15, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We are delighted to announce that the Cascadia Poetics Lab has a new Administrative Assistant, Veronica Martinez. A little about her: Veronica Martinez is Cascadia Poetics Lab’s Administrative Assistant and is a fiction writer, poet, and musician. Veronica graduated...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 7, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Looking at the blank canvas of a new map: merely a rough outline—what to put on? No, no, that’s the wrong question! Not what I want to impose, but rather what is trying to emerge from the background? From all the untold world? And from there … what to pull into the...
by Ryukan | Jun 6, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is an interview with Ann Batchelor Hursey, author of Field Notes: To Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Landscapes, and Lou Cabeen, the artist responsible for the Field Notes Companion artist book. The introduction: Roll on, Columbia,...
by Ryukan | Jun 5, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
On Sunday June 4, 2023, we held a Postcard Fest Zoom Open House. We had 25 attendees and we introduced the new Poetry Postcard Fest Project Board: Ina Roy-Faderman, Sally Hedges-Blanquez, Judy Kleinberg and Zach Charles. Margaret Lee is also on the board but did not...
by Ryukan | May 30, 2023 | Blog
Altar / Alter: an Arts Program from June 10 to 16, 2023 Seattle collaborators Eric M Acosta, Greg Bem, Amy Hirayama, and Denny Stern are pleased to announce Altar / Alter, a new program centering altars to take place in mid-June at The Cherry Pit in Seattle’s...
by Ryukan | May 27, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
The International Peace Research Association gathered May 17-21, 2023, in Port of Spain, Trinidad for their 2023 conference. I attended and was in the company of some of the world’s most brilliant scholars of peace. To be in this multi-racial country, to be...
by Ryukan | May 27, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Sunday, June 4, 2023 marks one month left before the start of the 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest. Earlybird registration closes and we’ll answer questions about the fest for newcomers, discuss fest developments such as the Poetry Postcard Fest Project Board and...
by Ryukan | May 3, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I was shopping for postcards the other day and know you are probably wondering if I am ever NOT shopping for postcards, but that is unimportant. The truth is that near Hood River, Oregon, I found a few amazing cards including the one which serves as featured image for...
