by Ryukan | Jan 1, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
I had the honor of conducting another interview with Brenda Hillman on December 12, 2022. The subject was her new book In A Few Minutes Before Later. It is wonderful to see a poet evolving in such a beautiful way as Brenda is, following her own “permission to be...
by Ryukan | Dec 16, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast guest is Wendy Call. She is translator of Isthmus Zapotec poet Irma Pineda. The new book is In the Belly of Night and Other Poems and Wendy talks about how she learned Spanish, how she came to know this woman whom she calls an...
by Ryukan | Dec 13, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
When I visited Mary Norbert Körte in October of 2019, we recorded interviews on consecutive days. On the second day we talked, among other things, about the chapbook put together by the City University of New York’s Lost & Found program featuring her...
by Ryukan | Dec 6, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
I am so grateful Bhakti and I trekked to Willits, California in October 2019 to interview the poet and former nun Mary Norbert Körte. She died November 14, 2022 at her home at a former redwood logging camp Irmulco. We will present two of the interviews we did at that...
by Ryukan | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is about Cascadian Zen from the three co-editors of the book, Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Adelia MacWilliam and Paul E Nelson (your humble correspondent.) We recorded the chat Sunday, November 27, 2022 on Salt Spring Island after the...
by Ryukan | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics Lab board member Adelia MacWilliam is a poet whose family settled on Salt Spring Island in the 1850s. Adelia has struggled with the settler amnesia and is part of what promises to be a fascinating talk on Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 2pm at the Salt...
by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Why are only 8% of Hollywood movies produced by women, down from 9% 20 years ago? One Hollywood film-maker says the “male gaze” reinforced by a camera angle formula and a subject-object dynamic creates an industry rife with employment discrimination and sexual abuse...
by Ryukan | Oct 31, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
2023 marks the third year the Cascadia Poetics Lab has offered online workshops. Started as a pandemic necessity, it has become an alternative community-building project, with one group registering for workshops for three years! These workshops continue weekly in 5...
by Ryukan | Oct 24, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Self-described Cascadian poet Sharon Thesen will give the annual Charles Olson lecture Saturday, October 29 at 1pm EDT, 10am PDT at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and it will be streamed. Details: Author Sharon Thesen will give this year’s annual...
by Ryukan | Oct 20, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It does not feel like fall in Seattle where it has rained .5 inches in the last 120 days. Needless to say the air quality is horrid and I am still thinking it is summer. I guess I am not too late to post a video of the poetry postcards I received in 2022. A LOT! (I...
by Ryukan | Oct 16, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
The Cascadia Poetics Lab was delighted to partner with the Seattle University Department of Philosophy and Open Books: A Poem Emporium to facilitate a visit by master poet, translator and anthologist Pierre Joris. Pierre is both philosopher and poet and his 55 year...
by Ryukan | Oct 15, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Turing 60’s a bitch, but it’s better than the alternative. Check out longtime postcard fest participant Amy Miller’s fest wrapup. Excerpt: Serial and random I started out the Fest bent on seriality. Weeks earlier, I knew exactly what I wanted to...
by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
The Cascadia Poetics Lab is proud to collaborate with the Philosophy Department of Seattle University, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, WESTAF and Poets & Writers to present poet, translator and anthologist Pierre Joris for a reading, a book signing and a special...
by Ryukan | Oct 1, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.” A quote attributed to John Quincy Adams, though it is quite possible that is a paraphrase. To go from being a gang-banger in Othello, Washington, to a bigger gang called the U.S. Army,...
by Ryukan | Sep 28, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
On September 15, 2022 we caught up with Allegra Brucker and talked to her about her participation in the Poetry Postcard Fest. She learned about the fest via Diane di Prima and still has the instructions she received in 2007. She also shared a number of cards with us...
