by Ryukan | Feb 12, 2022 | Blog
The next round of online workshops begins March 3, 2022 with the first of five sessions that happen Thursdays from 4-6pm. The workshops started during the pandemic and were geared for people who have participated in the Poetry Postcard Fest, or for those who wanted a...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Our intrepid interviewer Ina Roy caught up with two time participant, Colorado resident Lawrence Pevec, to discuss his experience with the Poetry Postcard Fest. He talked about his main focus, the art on the card itself. He has created encaustics and that created the...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Our Imbolc/Lunar New Year, Founding Supporters reading was magnificent. BC poetry legend Fred Wah, Ukiah California’s Theresa Whitehill and Bellingham’s Robert Lashley covered a wide variety of topics and delivered some remarkable lines, some of which were...
by Ryukan | Jan 30, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Sign up For CPL Founding Supporters Reading Casdadia Poetics LAB Founding Supporters Reading On January 31, 2022 at 6pm, The Cascadia Poetics Lab offers the latest reading for Founding Supporters, folks who have contributed at least $100 to our organization. The three...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 26, 2022 | Books
by Paul E Nelson Paul Nelson’s Haibun moves with the spirit of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s greguerías, one of the unclassifiable micro-genres Gómez invented in his quest to evade (literary) capture. Equally, but uniquely, evasive, Nelson’s poems are gorgeous mongrels...
by Ryukan | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog, podcast
Kenjiro Nomura was a Japanese immigrant to Seattle in the early 20th century and the first regional artist to have a solo exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum when it opened in 1933. The incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II and his wife’s post-war...
by Ryukan | Jan 5, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
I caught up with Fred Wah on December 9 to talk about a lecture he gave on his thoughts about lineation in his work and we also discussed serial poetry, his Music at the Heart of Thinking and his friendship with and appreciation for Phyllis Webb, who died November 11....
by Ryukan | Dec 22, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Seattle poet and teaching artist Laura Gamache has published in journals and anthologies, including Rattle, Altered Syntax, So, Dear Writer, and WA129, as well as her chapbooks, Never Enough and Nothing to Hold Onto. She has been privileged to work in Puget Sound area...
by Ryukan | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Open Books, one of a few all-poetry bookstores in the U.S., is working to move their operations from Wallingford to Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square neighborhood. Over eleven years since Elliot Bay Book Company fled the neighborhood, Open Books is working to...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Worskhop
In this workshop we take the methods and the organismic stance toward poetics (& life) and continue to investigate how to deepen one’s own work and life through spontaneous writing, rituals, honing the intuition, exercising the imagination & discovering the...
by Ryukan | Dec 13, 2021 | podcast
James Rasmussen is a Duwamish Tribal member and Superfund Manager for the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition. He talked with Paul E Nelson on October 18, 2021 about his Duwamish heritage, about the effort to gain federal recognition of the Duwamish Tribe, the entities...
by Ryukan | Dec 7, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
56 Days of August Co-Editor Ina Roy-Faderman caught up with longtime postcard poet Daniel Smith to talk about his 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest experience. 2022 Poetry Postcard Fest Registration is OPEN NOW. Consider becoming a Founding Supporter of the Cascadia Poetics...
by Ryukan | Nov 18, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I caught up Wednesday, November 17, 2021, with Southern California poet Penelope Moffet about her Poetry Postcard Fest experience. Penelope Moffet is the author of It Isn’t That They Mean to Kill You (Arroyo Seco Press, 2018). Her poems have been published in Gleam,...
by Ryukan | Nov 10, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
I had the good fortune to have been interviewed by Greg Bem, a poet/librarian/traveler/activist who I’ve known for over a decade. I appreciate his ongoing interest in my work and the opportunity to give folks an update on my work and projects at this stage of my...
by Ryukan | Nov 7, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
A 2011 interview with Seattle poet and fiber artist Carletta Carrington Wilson conducted by Paul E Nelson. They talked about Wilson’s poetry, filled with Garcia Lorca’s notion of duende, what first drew her to poetry (or how poetry called her in elementary...
