by Ryukan | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
One of the most important poets ever to live and work in Seattle, Denise Levertov died in 1997. There is no mention of her time in Seattle outside the Seward Park house she called home for eight years, but thanks to the Rainier Valley Rotary, SPLAB is spear-heading an...
by Ryukan | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog
From PageBoy Magazine: PageBoy invites you to submit original work in any form on the theme “writers on writers.” Please consider writing something on your favorite author, or your least favorite author; or on an author you feel deserves more attention, or...
by Ryukan | Sep 7, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
There’s not much more I can say about the 2016 August Poetry Postcard Fest that I did not say in the first of two videos that I created today (Sept 7, 2016): And to pick out highlights is so difficult, but you may be seeing some of the best of the 53 cards...
by Ryukan | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
From the Nimrod Journal: Call for Submissions LEAVING HOME, FINDING HOME Home. It’s a concept that stretches across all cultures and all times. But what makes a home? Why do we sometimes seek out new homes, or refuse to leave the homes we already have? How do we...
by Ryukan | Aug 31, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Such a bittersweet feeling to drop off my last three poetry postcards at the post office. Even though there is a mailbox downstairs here at the swinging Angeline and a mailbox on the corner of Edmunds and R.A.S. basically across the street, I mailed almost all of my...
by Ryukan | Aug 22, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I love it when different parts of my life intersect, reinforce, inform one another, validate, how ever you want to put it. It took an Einstein, I am told, to say: “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” I have been tracking the astrology...
by Ryukan | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
It is a rather remarkable thing to have in a city: an all-poetry bookstore. Cambridge, MA and Boulder, CO, are the only two USAmerican cities (besides Seattle) I believe with such a cultural nexus. And for many years the people who made Seattle’s all poetry...
by Ryukan | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog
The Tenth August Poetry Postcard Fest is under way and there are a few good links to get caught up with how that is going: The information page with the countdown to NEXT YEAR’s CALL is here. The gift aspect of the fest in many of its manifestations is here. Ina...
by Ryukan | Jul 25, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It is the tenth year of the August Poetry Postcard Fest and as I was taking an afternoon walk this past weekend, it hit me – what a gift this annual event is through and through. Having so many people year after year tell me, email me, or post to the APPF...
by Ryukan | Jul 20, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The tenth year of the Poetry Postcard Fest is under way and there are seven full groups of 32 poets, 224 participants in all, which is a record for the fee era. And there are participants from Alabama, Alberta, Australia, British Columbia, California, Connecticut,...
by Ryukan | Jul 11, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Ina Roy-Faderman: “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Like a lot of writers, I’m a bit of a loner and more than a bit of a night owl. Nighttime is comfortable,...
by Ryukan | Jul 4, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2016 marks the tenth year of the fest and this is your official call. Directions to participate in the fest are linked here. This year poets will be organized in groups of 32...
by Ryukan | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog
From NW Film Forum: Hello Seattle Poetics LAB, We are reaching out to you about a rare Seattle presentation of And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead, at Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill June 29-July 2nd. And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead (2015) is a...
by Ryukan | Jun 14, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Ina Roy: The yearly August Postcard Poetry Festival has become an international event. To celebrate the 10th year of the Fest and the community that has developed around it, we will be creating an anthology of poems written as part of the 2016 August Postcard...
by Ryukan | Jun 13, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The 10th August Poetry Postcard Fest begins on July 4. Registration begins that day here: Buy tickets for Poetry Postcard Fest And poems from this year’s fest can be submitted for the 1st Poetry Postcard Fest Anthology, a project led by three volunteers. (See...
