by Ryukan | Mar 24, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Joanne Durham on her experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
by Ryukan | Mar 18, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Amy Miller on her experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
by Ryukan | Mar 18, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Seattle, WA, March 19, 2020—Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented nonprofit organization and organizing entity of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, is now registering writers for the 14th August Poetry Postcard Fest. We understand the global seriousness of...
by Ryukan | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
Seattle, WA, March 19, 2020—Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented nonprofit organization and organizing entity of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, is now registering writers for the 14th August Poetry Postcard Fest. We understand the global seriousness...
by Ryukan | Mar 17, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Stanley DelGozo on his experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
by Ryukan | Mar 9, 2020 | Blog
Exciting news! This summer is the launch of the Young Authors Summer Program…please spread the word to interested high school writers as we continue to build communities around the arts. This new creative writing program is for high school students who want to...
by Ryukan | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog
This went out today: Dear Cascadia Poetry Festival Participant, I am sending out an email to participants, volunteers, patrons and organizers. The SPLAB Board voted unanimously last night to POSTPONE the 2020 fest until 2021. The COVID-19 virus is the main factor. My...
by Ryukan | Jan 25, 2020 | Blog
Poets! If you’ve ever dreamed of spending a week in Ireland with a dozen poets, now’s your chance. Join Irish poets Sean Lysaght and Ness O’Mahony in September for a six-day poetry workshop and retreat on the rugged west coast of Ireland in...
by Ryukan | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog, Events
Organized loosely around exploring the relationship between the Cascadian bioregion as it intersects with Zen ideas, practices, and aesthetics, Shin Yu Pai, Jason Wirth and Paul E Nelson are hosting a diverse group of writers who are interested in broadly exploring...
by Ryukan | Nov 30, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am looking to interview at least ten postcard participants in the next few weeks to create some videos for a new PoPo website that will replace the current page on my cluttered personal site. Interviews will be (mostly) uniform, with standard questions and conducted...
by Ryukan | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog
Tribute to Robin Blaser, The Practice of Cascadia/The Practice of a Life (doc) Seattle, WA, March 5, 2020—Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented nonprofit organization and the organizing entity of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, is presenting the seventh...
by Ryukan | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog
Join Irish poets Sean Lysaght and Nessa O’Mahony for six days of poetry and discovery in the West of Ireland. Limited to 12 poets, morning workshops will take place in the intimate setting of Holly Hill, a private seaside residence outside of Westport, in County...
by Ryukan | Sep 15, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I have been holding off on taking and posting my annual picture of poetry postcards received during this year’s August Poetry Postcard Fest. If I counted right, I got 62 cards: This is a shot taken Friday, September 13, 2019, and it does not do justice to the...
by Ryukan | Sep 10, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am delighted to be part of the &Now Conference, which is being staged at UW-Bothell, September 19-22, 2019, with a rather remarkable collection of “experimental” poets.Not sure what word is appropriate these days for poets who take risks in their...
by Ryukan | Sep 1, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It seems rather overwhelming to summarize my experience as a participant of the 13th August Poetry Postcard Fest which longtime participant Terry Holzman a few years ago nicknamed PoPo and an anthology in 2017 called the “56 Days of August.” Yet here I am,...
