by Ryukan | Mar 20, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The launch of 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards, an anthology that was ten years in the making is finally happening in the Bay Area THIS WEEKEND! Ina Roy-Faderman has worked tirelessly to help create this book and set up these readings and I am looking forward to...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog
I consider him the dean of Washington poets. Sam Hamill’s poetry life has manifested in an oeuvre that is quintessentially Cascadian, influenced by Asian wisdom culture, deeply connected to place and will soon find its place in world literature. His work as...
by Ryukan | Mar 11, 2018 | Blog
From Sarah Zale: Call for Poems: Death Penalty The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill? ― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice...
by Ryukan | Feb 25, 2018 | Blog
Wendy Call 5 March 2018 Jude’s Old Town Rainier Beach, 9252 57th Ave S Seattle WA 98118 (206)420-4889 The open mike starts at 8:00 (with sign-up prior to that). Wendy will come on between 8:40 and 8:50 and give us 20 minutes or so of work. (photo by Kathy...
by Ryukan | Feb 22, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Upcoming gig alert! 11am, March 24, 2018: Book Passage, Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA. Join us for a celebration of the publication of 56 Days of August (Five Oaks Press) – readers will include participants in the yearly August Poetry Postcard Festival, Tupelo...
by Ryukan | Feb 4, 2018 | Blog
5 February 2018 Jude’s Old Town Rainier Beach The open mike starts at 8:00 (with sign-up prior to that. Usually a 5 minute time limit w/ readers chosen at random from the list). Claudia will come on around 8:50 and give us 20 minutes or so of work. CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA...
by Ryukan | Dec 30, 2017 | Blog
Join us for the 2nd Easy Speak Rainier Beach on New Year’s Day 2018! Are we waiting for poetry in the new year? NO! All open mic at a special time 5-8pm at Jude’s, with craft cocktails, tasty dinner items and YOUR OPEN MIC performance. More info here....
by Ryukan | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog
It is with great excitement that we announce an extension of the popular Easy Speak reading series to Jude’s Old Town in Rainier Beach on the first Monday of each month beginning on December 4, 2017. The Easy Speak series started five years ago at the Wedgwood...
by Ryukan | Nov 19, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I was delighted to participate in the open mic called Poetry Bridge, Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at the C&P Coffeehouse aka: West Seattle’s Living Room. Leopoldo Seguel holds court, introduces the featured readers and tapes, edits and posts on YouTube the...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2017 | Blog
Thanks to Ra’anan David, video of the main events from the 5th Cascadia Poetry Festival, held October 12-15, 2017, in Tacoma, are now online: 7:30 Friday Main Stage: Readings featuring scheduled poets: Patricia Smith, Bruce Weigl, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucia...
by Ryukan | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog
Some reviews of CPF5 (Tacoma, WA, Oct 12-15, 2017) by some participants: I’ve been to many poetry festivals over the years, and the Cascadia Festival is one of the best at combining literary energy with explorations of environmental, political, historical, and...
by Ryukan | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog
Thanks to Dale King and the Puget Sound Poetry Connection, Humanities Washington and Arts WA, and many other sponsors, volunteers, the SPLAB Board, Small Press Fair participants, brilliant poets and inspired attendees, we’re humbled and thrilled by the success...
by Ryukan | Oct 13, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The anthology 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards is out in the world and the three co-editors were among the poets reading from the book and discussing their practice of creating, composing and mailing poetry postcards. Ina Roy-Faderman, Judy Kleinberg and your...
by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog
I was stunned and humbled by this remarkable article on our festival, which starts tomorrow. Paul Constant wrote it and has been tracking our fest for a few years now. Glad he got some things out of the way and am grateful he gets what we’re doing. An excerpt:...
by Ryukan | Oct 4, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It used to be that the summer in Seattle had very little in the way of literary arts events. When Labor Day weekend came around, poets got caught up at Bumbershoot at the Bookfair and the Sunday night Red Sky Theater Open Mic. A new literary season would begin. Not so...
