by Ryukan | Jun 3, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Hard to believe it is one month until the start of the 2022 Poetry Postcard Fest. Registration is OPEN NOW and earlybird registration ends June 4. On Saturday, June 11 at 9am PDT, join fest co-founder Paul E Nelson for an EPIC post-fest EXERCISE. Sign up for Inside...
by Ryukan | May 27, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A year ago postcard poet Margaret Lee and I collaborated on an essay about the Poetry Postcard Fest and how it’s origins are indebted to the Black Mountain School of poetry. It was published by the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies. A year later, we...
by Ryukan | May 18, 2022 | Blog
That this organization is known as the Cascadia Poetics Lab is an ongoing homage to David McCloskey, the Father of Cascadia, who has worked for 50 years to bring a bioregional awareness to people living here. He has a new map, also highly evocative and beautiful, or...
by Ryukan | May 9, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Get your five page handout loaded with links, prompts and inspirations if you register for this one day workshop before June 10. Take a look inside our current workshop group that started after the 2020 Poetry Postcard Fest. We’ve been looking at how to engage...
by Ryukan | May 4, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It’s a pretty ambitious goal to write an epic poem in a day. Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, an epic about the daily routine written on Winter Solstice 1978, is like no other project that I know of, except for Canto Diurno #1. That 1986 poem by Pierre Joris is also...
by Ryukan | May 3, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Give Big, the annual campaign to support cultural organizations in the state of Washington is now! The Cascadia Poetics Lab seeks your support to help us increase our visibility and revenues. Many times in the last few weeks I have heard the notion that people in the...
by Ryukan | Apr 27, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Dear Postcard Poet, The earlybird registration for 2022 (Year 16 of the Poetry Postcard Fest) ends June 4 and the price will nudge up a bit for those who wait for the last month, so… if you’re into saving money and still having poetry postcards landing in...
by Ryukan | Apr 17, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
We caught up via Zoom with Hoa Nguyen on April 14, 2022 for an interview. Not everyone can say their mother was part of an all woman motorcycle troupe in Vietnam in the 1950s, but Hoa Nguyen can. If you think that it would be the kind of personal mythology out of...
by Ryukan | Apr 14, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
It has the potential to be quite a place to experience Seattle at its best. Right on Lake Washington, with views of the Cascade Mountains, a modest greenbelt with indigenous plants like Indian Plum and right off the 7 bus line. Chinook Beach Park is quite a place,...
by Ryukan | Feb 25, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
What a delight to interview John Brehm in his Portland home, Thursday, February 24, 2022. There are a couple of wonderful blurbs for his new book The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You To Joy. David Hinton said: “There is a...
by Ryukan | Feb 12, 2022 | Blog
The next round of online workshops begins March 3, 2022 with the first of five sessions that happen Thursdays from 4-6pm. The workshops started during the pandemic and were geared for people who have participated in the Poetry Postcard Fest, or for those who wanted a...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Our intrepid interviewer Ina Roy caught up with two time participant, Colorado resident Lawrence Pevec, to discuss his experience with the Poetry Postcard Fest. He talked about his main focus, the art on the card itself. He has created encaustics and that created the...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Our Imbolc/Lunar New Year, Founding Supporters reading was magnificent. BC poetry legend Fred Wah, Ukiah California’s Theresa Whitehill and Bellingham’s Robert Lashley covered a wide variety of topics and delivered some remarkable lines, some of which were...
by Ryukan | Jan 30, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Sign up For CPL Founding Supporters Reading Casdadia Poetics LAB Founding Supporters Reading On January 31, 2022 at 6pm, The Cascadia Poetics Lab offers the latest reading for Founding Supporters, folks who have contributed at least $100 to our organization. The three...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 26, 2022 | Books
by Paul E Nelson Paul Nelson’s Haibun moves with the spirit of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s greguerías, one of the unclassifiable micro-genres Gómez invented in his quest to evade (literary) capture. Equally, but uniquely, evasive, Nelson’s poems are gorgeous mongrels...
