by Ryukan | Jan 23, 2021 | Blog
Christine Lowther, the Poet Laureate of Tofino, BC, and a Make it True poet, had a call for poets who love TREES. IT IS NOW CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS. And if they are a high school-age poet there is: tofinopoetlaureate@gmail.com
by Ryukan | Jan 22, 2021 | Blog
How are two of SPLAB’s key programs (the August POetry POstcard Fest and the Cascadia Poetry Fest related?) See Tetsuezn Jason Wirth elaborate on a SPLAB Zoom call: Jason on Ahimsa, January 20, 2021 And just bringing a few of the strands together, I’m...
by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
LONGTIME Poetry Postcard Fest POet Cat Ruiz Kigerl discusses her participation in the annual Poetry Postcard Fest: Poetry Postcard Fest. Cat Ruiz Kigerl was born in Seattle. She is the author of three poetry books: Beach Notes, TwoNewfs Publishing, 2020, At the Town...
by Ryukan | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog
Mike O’Connor August 3, 1944 – January 4, 2021 https://www.ptleader.com/stories/mike-oconnor Obit by Tim McNulty and Jack Estes Mike O’Connor, a poet, writer, translator, and editor who championed Olympic Peninsula writers, died on January 4 at his home in...
by Ryukan | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog
Ian Boyden Reads from A Forest of Names Join Ian Boyden for a reading of poems from A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations, a collection of poems translating the names of schoolchildren killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. 5,196 schoolchildren were killed when their...
by Ryukan | Jan 13, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
CJ Prince discusses her experience with Poetry Postcard Fest, the Poetry Postcard Fest in an interview recorded December 8, 2020. C.J. Prince arrived in the Northwest, escorted by two dragons and one hundred and eight boxes of poems and a few lagging computers. You...
by Ryukan | Jan 6, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
We caught up with Wilderness Sarchild to discuss her Poetry Postcard Fest experience on December 7, 2020. Wilderness Sarchild is the author of a full length poetry collection, Old Women Talking, published by Passager Books, and the co-author of Wrinkles, the Musical,...
by Ryukan | Jan 2, 2021 | Blog
Like all other things the European Beat Studies Network is going virtual for their next event, though we all hope things are back to the new abnormal by October 2021. Still, this is a good opportunity for those who can’t get to Europe and have something...
by Ryukan | Dec 28, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Alicia Gignoux has enjoyed being part of the Poetry Postcard Fest poetry exchange. She taught Spanish at the university level in Montana for many years and spent time serving in Mexico with the Peace Corps.
by Ryukan | Dec 22, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Andrew Bell is a Poetry Postcard Fest poet living in Christchurch, New Zealand. He talked about his experience with the postcard fest and also USAmerican politics in the last weeks of you know who. Andrew M. Bell writes poetry, short fiction, plays, screenplays and...
by Ryukan | Dec 15, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Philip Riley, Poetry Postcard Fest poet: Here’s a recent photo of me in front of a tiny 13th century Cypriot church. It was above a stream where I went to collect reeds to repair a Greek chair. Beautiful icons line the walls of this simple building. As for the...
by Ryukan | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
It was just 27 years ago on this date that the organization now known as SPLAB was registered with the State of Washington as a non-profit organization. In the last 27 years we’ve created over 450 hours of original public affairs interview programs which aired...
by Ryukan | Dec 7, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Diane Elayne Dees discusses her involvement in Poetry Postcard Fest, the Poetry Postcard Fest after her first year of participation. Diane Elayne Dees’s poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in many journals and anthologies, and her...
by Ryukan | Dec 1, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
First time Poetry Postcard Fest participant Lawrence Pevec made a video about his encaustic postcard process. Lawrence is a friend and member of my spiritual community, Subud. He is also a Board Member of the cultural wing of Subud, SICA-USA, an entity which I now...
by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Now that our post-Poetry Postcard Fest workshop is over and has received some rave reviews (see THIS and also THIS) we’re ready now for another round of interviews with Poetry Postcard Fest participants for posting on Youtube and on this site. If you were not...
