by Ryukan | May 5, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Poetry and Posole Cascadia Day Celebrate the power of the natural world and the magnificence of the Cascadia bioregion with us on Cascadia Day, May 18th! In honor of the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be hosting a Poetry and...
by Ryukan | May 1, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
I think the first notion of land healing rituals came to me we hosted Diane di Prima at the old NW Spokenword Lab in Auburn November 1999. It might have been walking along the Stuck River when Diane and I talked about healing places and she mentioned the Tibetan...
by Ryukan | Apr 29, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Cascadian Zen editors are on the road again. This Tuesday, (APR 30, 2024) at 6pm, we close out National Poetry Month in style with a reading at Broadway Books in Portland. Details here:...
by Ryukan | Apr 25, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Since moving the world headquarters of the Cascadia Poetics Lab to Rainier Beach in July 2017, I have become enamored with Mapes Creek, or what the First People of this place called dxʷwuqʷəb – place of loon. It pops up out of the ground south of legendary...
by Roberta Hoffman | Apr 24, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Celebrate Cascadia Day at our Poetry and Posole Fundraiser! On May 18, celebrate the power of the natural world and the magnificence of the Cascadia bioregion with us! In honor of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be hosting a Poetry and Posole...
by Roberta Hoffman | Apr 18, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Upcoming Cascadian Zen Events! The editors of Cascadian Zen Vol. I Paul Nelson, Adelia MacWilliam and Dr. Jason Wirth are embarking on another mini tour of readings within Cascadia. The first reading will be held the People’s Co-Op in Vancouver, BC on April 20,...
by Ryukan | Apr 15, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
Here (below) is the audio version of my March 25, 2024 interview with Bill Porter on “Dancing With the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation.” We talked about his life, the movie and the film which chronicles his translation project. The Seattle...
by Roberta Hoffman | Apr 4, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF board member JI Kleinberg: If it’s April, it’s National Poetry Month, and that has me thinking about the upcoming Poetry Postcard Fest (PPF). Why now? I usually sign up for the next PPF as soon as registration opens. But not always. So this is a really good...
by Ryukan | Mar 28, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Imagine growing up a poet in a state like Wisconsin and having to travel to Colorado to learn about the work of Lorine Niedecker, and furthermore to have one’s own consciousness changed by engagement with her work. Niedecker’s work, since her death in 1970, has...
by Ryukan | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
We hope to see you at Village Books in Bellingham for a reading of Cascadian Zen. Sunday, April 21, 2024 from...
by Ryukan | Mar 22, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Books
The first printing of Cascadian Zen Volume I: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now has sold out and a deluxe edition is available. Proceeds from sales of these rare books will help fund the publication of Cascadian Zen Volume II due in Fall 2024. The launch...
by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 20, 2024 | CPL 2050, Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Video by Zach Charles Poetry Postcard Fest board member Zach Charles made a video discussing why he loves PPF and reading a Postcard Poem! Watch the video below! Registration for PPF 2024 is open NOW! Register...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2024 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Cascadia Poetics Lab is thrilled to be working with a community group here in Rainier Beach that seeks to create greater awareness of e creek that comes out of the ground south of legendary Kubota Garden, runs through a series of ponds there, through a ravine and...
by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 13, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Obituary for Postcard Poet Marit Saltrønes: Marit Saltrønes (Chris Ness)April 25, 1954 – January 2, 2024 Late in the evening of January 2, Marit died in her apartment at Pike Place Market. Marit’s health issues had been dogging her for nearly a decade. Free now,...
by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 11, 2024 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From PPF Board Member Ina Roy-Faderman: Oh, I hate this time change, harbinger of longer days. For me, summer is rough. I thrive in the cool and the rain, which we get plenty of in the winters of the West coast. Left to my own devices, I’d spend the summer skulking...
