by Roberta Hoffman | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, News
We are proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Community Accelerator Grant funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and awarded by ArtsFund! This gift will accelerate our organization’s efforts efforts as a literary arts and cultural organization in...
by Ryukan | Mar 31, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before turning the lights out. It’s also been described as “protest beauty” and is the collaboration of a printer (really, a book artist) and a poet, who’ve created “a full...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime postcarder Joanna Thomas is having an exhibition of 40 or so of her “dear-so-and-so” postcards just in time for her 75th birthday! Happy Birthday Joey! Check it out: Earlybird registration for the 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest goes til June 4 and the...
by Ryukan | Mar 26, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab
From David McCloskey: What end does politics serve? Surely it must serve ends beyond itself. Why seek greater bioregional autonomy? For self-determination. Yes, but what purpose in turn shall that value serve? None some may say, it’s self-justifying. But then it...
by Ryukan | Mar 19, 2023 | Blog
I was delighted to be involved in a few off-site readings for the AWP Conference, the annual gathering of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Great article in the Seattle Times on what happened here in Seattle March 8-10, 2023. A delight to connect with...
by Ryukan | Mar 2, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
The AWP Conference is in Seattle again (March 8-11) and 10,000 writers are expected to be in Seattle for the proceedings. (Come say hello to the Cascadia Poetics Lab at the bookfair. We have at least 5 off-site readings that merit your consideration: “Women of...
by Ryukan | Feb 28, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
With the assistance of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, I had the good fortune to interview E. Richard Atleo in 2005. Umeek is hereditary chief of the Ahousaht, grandson of the Keesta, the last of the Ahousaht whalers. He’s a research affiliate at the...
by Ryukan | Feb 9, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
CPL Board Member Jason Wirth has arranged for Dr. E. Richard Atleo to speak at Seattle U. This is a remarkable opportunity to hear about Nuu-Chal-Nuth cosmology. Details below. I had the good fortune to interview Dr. Atleo in 2005 and included the transcript in my...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
What a blessing it was December 28, 2022, to interview Shuri Kido, the accomplished Japanese poet and Zen practitioner. As I told he and his translators (Tomoyuki Endo, Forrest Gander) on that occasion, I don’t know of a higher calling at this time than building...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 23, 2023 | Cascadia Poetry Festival
Andrew Schelling -An ecologist, naturalist, and explorer of wilderness areas, Schelling has travelled in North America, Europe, India, and the Himalayas. His poetry is known for its engagement with the rhythms and elements of the natural world, its use of literary...
by Ryukan | Jan 1, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
I had the honor of conducting another interview with Brenda Hillman on December 12, 2022. The subject was her new book In A Few Minutes Before Later. It is wonderful to see a poet evolving in such a beautiful way as Brenda is, following her own “permission to be...
by Ryukan | Dec 16, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast guest is Wendy Call. She is translator of Isthmus Zapotec poet Irma Pineda. The new book is In the Belly of Night and Other Poems and Wendy talks about how she learned Spanish, how she came to know this woman whom she calls an...
by Ryukan | Dec 13, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
When I visited Mary Norbert Körte in October of 2019, we recorded interviews on consecutive days. On the second day we talked, among other things, about the chapbook put together by the City University of New York’s Lost & Found program featuring her...
by Ryukan | Dec 6, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
I am so grateful Bhakti and I trekked to Willits, California in October 2019 to interview the poet and former nun Mary Norbert Körte. She died November 14, 2022 at her home at a former redwood logging camp Irmulco. We will present two of the interviews we did at that...
by Ryukan | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
The latest Cascadian Prophets podcast is about Cascadian Zen from the three co-editors of the book, Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Adelia MacWilliam and Paul E Nelson (your humble correspondent.) We recorded the chat Sunday, November 27, 2022 on Salt Spring Island after the...
