by Ryukan | Jun 3, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Elizabeth Woods checks in from Down Under with a Postcard Fest interview. An excerpt: EW-The festival is now in its tenth year, what are some of the notable aspects a changes you have seen along the way? peN-Each year there is a new wrinkle. I think Judy Kleinberg’s...
by Ryukan | May 31, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The call for the tenth year of the August Poetry Postcard Fest will be released on July 4, 2016, and tickets go on sale at that time. Like last year, as soon as 32 participating poets get signed up, the list will go to them and registration will begin for the next...
by Ryukan | May 15, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Another Georgia O’Keeffe image used for this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard and one of the shortest 2015 postcard poems mostly because of the glossy stock and the difficulty in the actual writing of the poem. Ugh! Also a reference to an auspicious astrological...
by Ryukan | May 8, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Another Georgia O’Keeffe image, this latest August Poetry Postcard Fest poem was sent as prayer for a postcarder in the middle of summer wildfire hell.
by Ryukan | Apr 25, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
One of the cards I brought back from my 2014’s trip to Wisconsin that was part of my work in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. This one with allusions to soul-building with a nod to an old poem from my Auburn days.
by Ryukan | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog
For the first year SPLAB is participating in the Seattle Foundation’s Give Big program. The Seattle Foundation was a supporter of SPLAB from back in our Auburn days (1997-2004), and our 2016 goal is modest, $3,500. We want to guarantee a sold-out house for the...
by Ryukan | Apr 20, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A follow up to the post about my recent trip to Taos, New Mexico. Amalio Madueño is community development specialist and brilliant poet of Yaqui and Tarahumara heritage. I am indebted to Amalio for the thousands of dollars of assistance he’s given to SPLAB and...
by Ryukan | Apr 19, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
ANOTHER devil reference in this latest of the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest and an image of one to boot. I love how the neighbors across the street use a pole with netting at the end to harvest plums. See all poems I wrote in Summer 2015...
by Ryukan | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog
Deadline April 20! PageBoy Magazine, a local and renowned Seattle-area publication, is accepting submissions for its upcoming (May-ish) issue. Submissions will not be accepted after 4/20, so the clock is, as they say, ticking! More info on the process and...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
If you believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine, you know the lung/heart meridian is related to grief. I can’t help thinking that anytime someone has a smoking habit, grief must not be far away. Combine that kind of thinking (radical/root-oriented) with the fact...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2016 | Blog
Who: Colleen McElroy What: Reading from Blood Memory Where: Columbia City Gallery 4864 Rainier Ave S, Seattle WA 98118 When: April 8th, 7 PM. (RSVP please! ((206) 321-5219 or cherelouoma@gmail.com) Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy’s collection of narrative...
by Ryukan | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog
From Eugenia Hepworth Petty Dear Paul, The Inland Poetry website is finally complete! Please feel free to distribute widely. http://www.inlandpoetry.com/ One upcoming event April 9: BAUDELAIRE (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog
This from Jaye Ware: Important Event Post Washington State Poet Laureate Mr. Tod Marshall, appearing Columbia City Library 4721 Rainier Ave S., Seattle, Sunday, April 10, 2016 2:00 – 3:30 pm Free. Lover of poetry? This is a not-to-be-missed event. Jaye Ware,...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Yes, demons were a sub-theme of my work in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. More demons, another memory of the 2014 Subud World Congress in Puebla, Mexico, and an illusion to los feos americanos.
by Ryukan | Mar 9, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I participated in the first World Peace Poets postcard project this past February, after being invited by Carla Shafer. Rather than post every poem I wrote, I have put together a page which will feature all the poems I wrote for the project. The card I chose for #554....
