by Ryukan | Jun 21, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Judy Kleinberg: If you’re a newcomer to the Poetry Postcard Fest, you may be uncertain about the “right way” to do this crazy thing of writing and sending poems on postcards. Let me just assure you: there is no wrong way. That said, from the perspective of...
by Ryukan | Jun 18, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The Poetry Postcard Fest is my most consistent experience with what Paul (Paul E Nelson, founding director of Cascadia Poetics Lab and co-founder of the postcard fest) calls “practicing spontaneity.” Intellectually, I know what spontaneous creativity is....
by Ryukan | Jun 15, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
We are delighted to announce that the Cascadia Poetics Lab has a new Administrative Assistant, Veronica Martinez. A little about her: Veronica Martinez is Cascadia Poetics Lab’s Administrative Assistant and is a fiction writer, poet, and musician. Veronica graduated...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jun 7, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Looking at the blank canvas of a new map: merely a rough outline—what to put on? No, no, that’s the wrong question! Not what I want to impose, but rather what is trying to emerge from the background? From all the untold world? And from there … what to pull into the...
by Ryukan | Jun 6, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is an interview with Ann Batchelor Hursey, author of Field Notes: To Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Landscapes, and Lou Cabeen, the artist responsible for the Field Notes Companion artist book. The introduction: Roll on, Columbia,...
by Ryukan | Jun 5, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
On Sunday June 4, 2023, we held a Postcard Fest Zoom Open House. We had 25 attendees and we introduced the new Poetry Postcard Fest Project Board: Ina Roy-Faderman, Sally Hedges-Blanquez, Judy Kleinberg and Zach Charles. Margaret Lee is also on the board but did not...
by Ryukan | May 30, 2023 | Blog
Altar / Alter: an Arts Program from June 10 to 16, 2023 Seattle collaborators Eric M Acosta, Greg Bem, Amy Hirayama, and Denny Stern are pleased to announce Altar / Alter, a new program centering altars to take place in mid-June at The Cherry Pit in Seattle’s...
by Ryukan | May 27, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
The International Peace Research Association gathered May 17-21, 2023, in Port of Spain, Trinidad for their 2023 conference. I attended and was in the company of some of the world’s most brilliant scholars of peace. To be in this multi-racial country, to be...
by Ryukan | May 27, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Sunday, June 4, 2023 marks one month left before the start of the 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest. Earlybird registration closes and we’ll answer questions about the fest for newcomers, discuss fest developments such as the Poetry Postcard Fest Project Board and...
by Ryukan | May 3, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I was shopping for postcards the other day and know you are probably wondering if I am ever NOT shopping for postcards, but that is unimportant. The truth is that near Hood River, Oregon, I found a few amazing cards including the one which serves as featured image for...
by Roberta Hoffman | May 2, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Thanks to those folks who have supported is via Give Big in the past and at least one generous early donor in 2023. Give Big is today and tomorrow and look what those funds support! Cascadia Poetics Lab is a vibrant community whose workshops, festivals, and...
by Ryukan | May 1, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
“Rescue and Revival of a Seattle Legend: Carletta Carrington Wilson Interprets James Washington Jr.” is an essay in a book that chronicles a residency at the home of this under-appreciated Seattle sculptor who died in the year 2000, but not until leaving behind a body...
by Roberta Hoffman | Apr 18, 2023 | test rh
Cascadia Poetics Lab is a vibrant community whose workshops, festivals, and opportunities for connection can open the door for transformative experiences. We believe that poetry is the nexus at which self knowledge, bioregionalism, and expansive creativity converge....
by Ryukan | Apr 14, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
The board of the Cascadia Poetics Lab had its spring 2023 board retreat on Salt Spring Island. Our last retreat on the Long Beach Peninsula was a huge success and we made new friends in that part of the world. Promo poster by Roberta Hoffman is below. Here is the...
by Ryukan | Apr 6, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’m delighted to have a postcard poem in the new anthology I Sing the Salmon Home. It’s a book of poems by Washington state poets, curated by the last state Poet Laureate (and Lummi Tribal member Rena Priest) and published by Empty Bowl. From the...
