by Ryukan | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Cascadia Poetics Lab board member Adelia MacWilliam is a poet whose family settled on Salt Spring Island in the 1850s. Adelia has struggled with the settler amnesia and is part of what promises to be a fascinating talk on Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 2pm at the Salt...
by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Why are only 8% of Hollywood movies produced by women, down from 9% 20 years ago? One Hollywood film-maker says the “male gaze” reinforced by a camera angle formula and a subject-object dynamic creates an industry rife with employment discrimination and sexual abuse...
by Ryukan | Oct 31, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
2023 marks the third year the Cascadia Poetics Lab has offered online workshops. Started as a pandemic necessity, it has become an alternative community-building project, with one group registering for workshops for three years! These workshops continue weekly in 5...
by Ryukan | Oct 24, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Self-described Cascadian poet Sharon Thesen will give the annual Charles Olson lecture Saturday, October 29 at 1pm EDT, 10am PDT at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and it will be streamed. Details: Author Sharon Thesen will give this year’s annual...
by Ryukan | Oct 20, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It does not feel like fall in Seattle where it has rained .5 inches in the last 120 days. Needless to say the air quality is horrid and I am still thinking it is summer. I guess I am not too late to post a video of the poetry postcards I received in 2022. A LOT! (I...
by Ryukan | Oct 16, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
The Cascadia Poetics Lab was delighted to partner with the Seattle University Department of Philosophy and Open Books: A Poem Emporium to facilitate a visit by master poet, translator and anthologist Pierre Joris. Pierre is both philosopher and poet and his 55 year...
by Ryukan | Oct 15, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Turing 60’s a bitch, but it’s better than the alternative. Check out longtime postcard fest participant Amy Miller’s fest wrapup. Excerpt: Serial and random I started out the Fest bent on seriality. Weeks earlier, I knew exactly what I wanted to...
by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
The Cascadia Poetics Lab is proud to collaborate with the Philosophy Department of Seattle University, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, WESTAF and Poets & Writers to present poet, translator and anthologist Pierre Joris for a reading, a book signing and a special...
by Ryukan | Oct 1, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.” A quote attributed to John Quincy Adams, though it is quite possible that is a paraphrase. To go from being a gang-banger in Othello, Washington, to a bigger gang called the U.S. Army,...
by Ryukan | Sep 28, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
On September 15, 2022 we caught up with Allegra Brucker and talked to her about her participation in the Poetry Postcard Fest. She learned about the fest via Diane di Prima and still has the instructions she received in 2007. She also shared a number of cards with us...
by Ryukan | Sep 23, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
You are cordially invited to two events with legendary poet, anthologist and translator Pierre Joris, at Seattle U, Friday, October 14, 2022 and at Open Books, Saturday, October 15. Details: Pierre Joris is a renowned poet, literary critic, philosopher,...
by Ryukan | Sep 19, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
The Cascadia Poetics Lab board met at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview, WA, this past weekend, September 16-18, 2022 for our twice-annual board retreat. We discussed plans for Cascadian Zen, for the visit of Pierre Joris in Cascadia in October, the success of the...
by Ryukan | Sep 15, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
We had a wonderful Open Mic for Poetry Postcard Fest participants Saturday morning, September 10, 2022. The sense of community was palpable and it is always nice to meet the people behind the cards you received. Our count was 22 poets. Video is linked below and...
by Ryukan | Sep 14, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Thanks to Cascadia Poetics Lab board member Cate Gable, we are set to have a reading Saturday on the Long Beach Peninsula. It’s set for Saturday evening September 17th from 4:30-5:30/6ish at the Sou’wester pavillion (Seaview, WA). There will be a literary...
by Ryukan | Sep 12, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
How to capture the soul of a subject, live your life dedicated to your own art, the process of discovery and even plan your syncretic memorial so that all your ducks are in a row? This seems to me efficient, humble, gentle and visionary all at the same time and could...
