by Ryukan | Nov 6, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
We had a remarkable and deeply soulful Founding Supporters reading last night, Friday, November 5, 2021. Huge thanks to all who attended and to the poets: John Olson, Sharon Thesen, Daphne Marlatt and Brenda Hillman. More to come, but I just had to share this amazing...
by Ryukan | Oct 31, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
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 | Oct 26, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Look at the 53 cards I got in 2021: If the baseball season can go into November, then postcard season can go late into October and I have been blown away by all the postcard love I got this year. I did hear some folks did not receive all of their cards and some cards...
by Ryukan | Oct 19, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
The Cascadia Poetics Lab is proud to support Poems for Peace, an initiative of the Subud International Cultural Association. Poet Andrew Schelling, a longtime friend of the Cascadia Poetics LAB will be the featured poet, will talk about the link between poetry and...
by Ryukan | Oct 18, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
Larissa Lai Interview by Paul E. Nelson Iron Goddess of Mercy is a long poem that channels the vengeful energies of The Furies to address modern-day issues of systemic racism, colonialism, climate destruction and genocide in 64 dense haibun. With influences ranging...
by Ryukan | Oct 17, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Dear Paul, I hope this is the correct email to write you about the Festival. First time Postcard Poetry participant here. As of today, I’ve received 21 postcards! Very impressed by the ingenuity of the postcards, the commitment in sending, and the variety of...
by Ryukan | Oct 10, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Thank you Mary Beth Frezon, veteran postcarder, for these wise words: Yes I’m one of those people who mark your card as arrived when it does but I don’t worry about it if it doesn’t. I’m grateful for all the cards that arrive and stick with my notion that the Poetry...
by Ryukan | Oct 5, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
We are delighted to present four master poets for our Founding Supporters, those who have contributed at least $100 to launch the new phase of the Cascadia Poetics LAB. The reading will take place via Zoom, Friday, November 5, 2021 at 7pm PDT. Please RSVP to pen @...
by Ryukan | Oct 3, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I enjoyed participating in the poetry festival. Although I only have received 9 poems so far, I can see the thoughtfulness in them. I will be looking forward to receiving more in the mail. I have been having difficulties with shipments across from the US to Canada...
by Ryukan | Sep 27, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime postcard poet and co-editor of 56 Days of August Judy Kleinberg has published her 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest afterword: I never know quite when it’s over — when all of the postcards I’m likely to receive have now arrived. As of today, six (of 31) are still...
by Ryukan | Sep 15, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Thanks to Paul, Group 1, and the regulars who register every year. You all make the festival the celebration that it is. I’ve been participating in the festival from the beginning. Most years, as Float Press, I’ve designed and letterpress printed postcards on my...
by Ryukan | Sep 9, 2021 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Founding Director of the Cascadia Poetics LAB, Paul E Nelson was recently featured in Subud Voice, a publication based in Australia and dedicated to Subud member activities. (Paul’s spiritual community since 2004.) See: & you are invited to Paul’s...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Hi Paul, As an afterword, here is a poem made up of the first lines of all the poems I received, and two images. Group 16, the stragglers! The woman holding a flower came from Greg Colburn of Hanover, PA (the painting is Wild Flowers by John Wragg.) The clothespins...
by Ryukan | Sep 5, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
Cascadian Prophets 1 – Robert Lashley (Sept 2021) by Paul E. Nelson “Achingly beautiful” is the poetry of Robert Lashley. “His rich mind and his wounded soul – blaze in glory like never before” says one critic. His third book is Green River Valley...
by Ryukan | Sep 5, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
There were 45 attendees at the Poetry Postcard Fest Open Mic event, Saturday, September 4, 2021 via the dreaded (miracle) of Zoom. Richard Osler of Duncan, BC, was a brilliant emcee and Ina Roy-Faderman, co-editor of 56 Days of August helped coordinate the list of...
