by Ryukan | Oct 17, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Dear Paul, I hope this is the correct email to write you about the Festival. First time Postcard Poetry participant here. As of today, I’ve received 21 postcards! Very impressed by the ingenuity of the postcards, the commitment in sending, and the variety of...
by Ryukan | Oct 10, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Thank you Mary Beth Frezon, veteran postcarder, for these wise words: Yes I’m one of those people who mark your card as arrived when it does but I don’t worry about it if it doesn’t. I’m grateful for all the cards that arrive and stick with my notion that the Poetry...
by Ryukan | Oct 5, 2021 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
We are delighted to present four master poets for our Founding Supporters, those who have contributed at least $100 to launch the new phase of the Cascadia Poetics LAB. The reading will take place via Zoom, Friday, November 5, 2021 at 7pm PDT. Please RSVP to pen @...
by Ryukan | Oct 3, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I enjoyed participating in the poetry festival. Although I only have received 9 poems so far, I can see the thoughtfulness in them. I will be looking forward to receiving more in the mail. I have been having difficulties with shipments across from the US to Canada...
by Ryukan | Sep 27, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime postcard poet and co-editor of 56 Days of August Judy Kleinberg has published her 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest afterword: I never know quite when it’s over — when all of the postcards I’m likely to receive have now arrived. As of today, six (of 31) are still...
by Ryukan | Sep 15, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Thanks to Paul, Group 1, and the regulars who register every year. You all make the festival the celebration that it is. I’ve been participating in the festival from the beginning. Most years, as Float Press, I’ve designed and letterpress printed postcards on my...
by Ryukan | Sep 9, 2021 | blog cascadia poetics lab
The Founding Director of the Cascadia Poetics LAB, Paul E Nelson was recently featured in Subud Voice, a publication based in Australia and dedicated to Subud member activities. (Paul’s spiritual community since 2004.) See: & you are invited to Paul’s...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Hi Paul, As an afterword, here is a poem made up of the first lines of all the poems I received, and two images. Group 16, the stragglers! The woman holding a flower came from Greg Colburn of Hanover, PA (the painting is Wild Flowers by John Wragg.) The clothespins...
by Ryukan | Sep 5, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
Cascadian Prophets 1 – Robert Lashley (Sept 2021) by Paul E. Nelson “Achingly beautiful” is the poetry of Robert Lashley. “His rich mind and his wounded soul – blaze in glory like never before” says one critic. His third book is Green River Valley...
by Ryukan | Sep 5, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
There were 45 attendees at the Poetry Postcard Fest Open Mic event, Saturday, September 4, 2021 via the dreaded (miracle) of Zoom. Richard Osler of Duncan, BC, was a brilliant emcee and Ina Roy-Faderman, co-editor of 56 Days of August helped coordinate the list of...
by Ryukan | Sep 1, 2021 | blog cascadia poetics lab
Welcome to the new website of the Cascadia Poetics Lab. Today, with the assistance of web genius Roberta Hoffman, the CPL Board of Directors and other expert support, we launch our new name and a new era for this organization that was founded December 14, 1993. SPLAB...
by Ryukan | Aug 28, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This year’s post-Poetry Postcard Fest open mic will happen Saturday, September 4 at 10am PDT via Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/s/2064225002 If you would like to help coordinate it, please let me know. We plan to record it for folks who are away on Labor Day...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 27, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
MARGARET “MARGE” MERRILL, a life-long resident of Western New York and longtime participant in its poetry community, died suddenly on July 22 after a brief illness. She was 70. A former host of the Screening Room Reading Series in Amherst, her work appeared in many...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 23, 2021 | Books
What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 22, 2021 | podcast, podcastb
Wanda Coleman Interview by Paul E. Nelson https://media.blubrry.com/Cascadian_Prophets/p/paulenelson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/3.Wanda_Coleman_Focus_312_2.17.2002_Interview_Part_2_14.58.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:57 —...
