by Ryukan | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog, podcast
Kenjiro Nomura was a Japanese immigrant to Seattle in the early 20th century and the first regional artist to have a solo exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum when it opened in 1933. The incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II and his wife’s post-war...
by Ryukan | Jan 5, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
I caught up with Fred Wah on December 9 to talk about a lecture he gave on his thoughts about lineation in his work and we also discussed serial poetry, his Music at the Heart of Thinking and his friendship with and appreciation for Phyllis Webb, who died November 11....
by Ryukan | Dec 22, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Seattle poet and teaching artist Laura Gamache has published in journals and anthologies, including Rattle, Altered Syntax, So, Dear Writer, and WA129, as well as her chapbooks, Never Enough and Nothing to Hold Onto. She has been privileged to work in Puget Sound area...
by Ryukan | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Open Books, one of a few all-poetry bookstores in the U.S., is working to move their operations from Wallingford to Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square neighborhood. Over eleven years since Elliot Bay Book Company fled the neighborhood, Open Books is working to...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, Worskhop
In this workshop we take the methods and the organismic stance toward poetics (& life) and continue to investigate how to deepen one’s own work and life through spontaneous writing, rituals, honing the intuition, exercising the imagination & discovering the...
by Ryukan | Dec 13, 2021 | podcast
James Rasmussen is a Duwamish Tribal member and Superfund Manager for the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition. He talked with Paul E Nelson on October 18, 2021 about his Duwamish heritage, about the effort to gain federal recognition of the Duwamish Tribe, the entities...
by Ryukan | Dec 7, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
56 Days of August Co-Editor Ina Roy-Faderman caught up with longtime postcard poet Daniel Smith to talk about his 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest experience. 2022 Poetry Postcard Fest Registration is OPEN NOW. Consider becoming a Founding Supporter of the Cascadia Poetics...
by Ryukan | Nov 18, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I caught up Wednesday, November 17, 2021, with Southern California poet Penelope Moffet about her Poetry Postcard Fest experience. Penelope Moffet is the author of It Isn’t That They Mean to Kill You (Arroyo Seco Press, 2018). Her poems have been published in Gleam,...
by Ryukan | Nov 10, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
I had the good fortune to have been interviewed by Greg Bem, a poet/librarian/traveler/activist who I’ve known for over a decade. I appreciate his ongoing interest in my work and the opportunity to give folks an update on my work and projects at this stage of my...
by Ryukan | Nov 7, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
A 2011 interview with Seattle poet and fiber artist Carletta Carrington Wilson conducted by Paul E Nelson. They talked about Wilson’s poetry, filled with Garcia Lorca’s notion of duende, what first drew her to poetry (or how poetry called her in elementary...
by Ryukan | Nov 6, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
We had a remarkable and deeply soulful Founding Supporters reading last night, Friday, November 5, 2021. Huge thanks to all who attended and to the poets: John Olson, Sharon Thesen, Daphne Marlatt and Brenda Hillman. More to come, but I just had to share this amazing...
by Ryukan | Oct 31, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
In this workshop we take the methods and the organismic stance toward poetics (& life) and continue to investigate how to deepen one’s own work and life through spontaneous writing, rituals, honing the intuition, exercising the imagination & discovering the...
by Ryukan | Oct 26, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Look at the 53 cards I got in 2021: If the baseball season can go into November, then postcard season can go late into October and I have been blown away by all the postcard love I got this year. I did hear some folks did not receive all of their cards and some cards...
by Ryukan | Oct 19, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
The Cascadia Poetics Lab is proud to support Poems for Peace, an initiative of the Subud International Cultural Association. Poet Andrew Schelling, a longtime friend of the Cascadia Poetics LAB will be the featured poet, will talk about the link between poetry and...
by Ryukan | Oct 18, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
Larissa Lai Interview by Paul E. Nelson Iron Goddess of Mercy is a long poem that channels the vengeful energies of The Furies to address modern-day issues of systemic racism, colonialism, climate destruction and genocide in 64 dense haibun. With influences ranging...
