by Ryukan | Jun 24, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
When we asked for testimonials from Poetry Postcard Fest participants, we never expected to be inundated. Check this: Elizabeth Maxey: This will be my 11th year with the fest, and I can’t imagine a year without it. August is the one month when I allow myself to...
by Ryukan | Jun 21, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The 16th Poetry Postcard Fest begins July 4. Those who have registered and have 32 in their group will get their lists that day and those who have registered more recently will get a list by the next day. Starting your postcard poem writing on July 6 gives you...
by Ryukan | Jun 18, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The 16th Poetry Postcard Fest begins July 4 and registration will end on that day! REGISTER NOW and await your postcard mirth! What do people say about the fest? Jessica Gershon: (The Poetry Postcard Fest) is what my soul needed. It has introduced me to parts of...
by Ryukan | Jun 13, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Thanks to the folks who came to our Inside the Day Song workshop last Saturday. More news about that project will be forthcoming. Now is the time for the last-minute postcard fest registrants to step up and commit to participating in this life-changing project. More...
by Ryukan | Jun 8, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
We caught up with the Editor of the visionary blog on Cascadian issues, Patrick Mazza of The Raven, in early May 2022. We present our chat below in the latest Cascadian Prophets podcast. In my interview introduction I said: “Patrick Mazza is tracking crises and...
by Ryukan | Jun 3, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Hard to believe it is one month until the start of the 2022 Poetry Postcard Fest. Registration is OPEN NOW and earlybird registration ends June 4. On Saturday, June 11 at 9am PDT, join fest co-founder Paul E Nelson for an EPIC post-fest EXERCISE. Sign up for Inside...
by Ryukan | May 27, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A year ago postcard poet Margaret Lee and I collaborated on an essay about the Poetry Postcard Fest and how it’s origins are indebted to the Black Mountain School of poetry. It was published by the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies. A year later, we...
by Ryukan | May 18, 2022 | Blog
That this organization is known as the Cascadia Poetics Lab is an ongoing homage to David McCloskey, the Father of Cascadia, who has worked for 50 years to bring a bioregional awareness to people living here. He has a new map, also highly evocative and beautiful, or...
by Ryukan | May 9, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Get your five page handout loaded with links, prompts and inspirations if you register for this one day workshop before June 10. Take a look inside our current workshop group that started after the 2020 Poetry Postcard Fest. We’ve been looking at how to engage...
by Ryukan | May 4, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It’s a pretty ambitious goal to write an epic poem in a day. Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, an epic about the daily routine written on Winter Solstice 1978, is like no other project that I know of, except for Canto Diurno #1. That 1986 poem by Pierre Joris is also...
by Ryukan | May 3, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Give Big, the annual campaign to support cultural organizations in the state of Washington is now! The Cascadia Poetics Lab seeks your support to help us increase our visibility and revenues. Many times in the last few weeks I have heard the notion that people in the...
by Ryukan | Apr 27, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Dear Postcard Poet, The earlybird registration for 2022 (Year 16 of the Poetry Postcard Fest) ends June 4 and the price will nudge up a bit for those who wait for the last month, so… if you’re into saving money and still having poetry postcards landing in...
by Ryukan | Apr 17, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
We caught up via Zoom with Hoa Nguyen on April 14, 2022 for an interview. Not everyone can say their mother was part of an all woman motorcycle troupe in Vietnam in the 1950s, but Hoa Nguyen can. If you think that it would be the kind of personal mythology out of...
by Ryukan | Apr 14, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
It has the potential to be quite a place to experience Seattle at its best. Right on Lake Washington, with views of the Cascade Mountains, a modest greenbelt with indigenous plants like Indian Plum and right off the 7 bus line. Chinook Beach Park is quite a place,...
by Ryukan | Feb 25, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
What a delight to interview John Brehm in his Portland home, Thursday, February 24, 2022. There are a couple of wonderful blurbs for his new book The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You To Joy. David Hinton said: “There is a...
