by Ryukan | Mar 4, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The latest poem to be posted from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest:
by Ryukan | Feb 27, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Unlike Chicory, I’ve been eating fennel the last couple of summers. The intensity of this herb is astounding and a wonderful taste that one gets in Cascadia summer. I heard it grows wild north of San Francisco, as we recently saw aside Highway 1 on the way to Stinson...
by Ryukan | Feb 21, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
An August Poetry Postcard from 2015 featuring yet another photo of mine from 2014, this one from the Skokomish Rez, I love the allusion to the American Indian Movement and hope President Obama will finally pardon Leonard Peltier. But the poem is more about...
by Ryukan | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
Please join us Thursday, March 3, 2016, at 7pm for a reading and celebration of the six week Innovative Cascadia Poetry MOOC that ends March 4. The event space is the 6th Floor of the Angeline Apartment building, at 4801 Rainier Av S, in Seattle’s Columbia City...
by Ryukan | Feb 17, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I like to think of it as a good sign in my life when critters are waiting until I pass by to drop from the sky in need of a little aid. Fortunately this recent experience was only a hummingbird, but the thud was palatable and the experience quite humbling. In town for...
by Ryukan | Feb 12, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
For some reason I segued into a memory from my rock n roll DJ days in Appleton, WI (WAPL) with this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest poem from August 11. I was a member of the Leinenkugel Club and required to have at least one cold Leinie’s in the fridge at all...
by Ryukan | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog
Rainier Valley Lit Crawl #3 Consider attending the third iteration of the Rainier Valley Lit Crawl, which brings writers and listeners to Southeast Seattle locations for another night of literary engagement. This lit crawl will include the following venues: Spinnaker...
by Ryukan | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog
From Jared Leising: During our second week of Innovative Cascadia Poetry, there will be another opportunity for people in the Seattle-area who are taking the course to meet in person. We will be screening and discussing the film The Line Has Shattered at Cascadia...
by Ryukan | Jan 21, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Written in the heat of the recent Bernus Interruptus, which I witnessed and which my report of (I think) resulted in the loss of one postcard participant. The bloqueo reference is the Cuban economic embargo which has been quite punishing to the people of the country...
by Ryukan | Jan 10, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Since 2004, I’ve had a little soft spot in my heart for Muslims given that my spiritual practice (the Latihan Kejiwaan of Subud) was created (discovered?/invented?) by a Muslim. (I was initiated into Subud June 2004.) Maybe that’s why the case of the man...
by Ryukan | Dec 18, 2015 | Blog
The 4th Cascadia Poetry Festival is set for November 3-6, 2016 at Spring Street Center in Seattle. Capacity of the venue is 80 and so Gold Passes will be at a premium. They will go on sale in the next couple of months and will be $35 for every fest event except for...
by Ryukan | Dec 18, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
On this 2015 August Poetry Postcard there is photo of the Chief after whom the city I live in is named. Is there another major American city that so directly honors its indigenous heritage? If yes, comment below. The poem also riffs off the Chief’s famous speech, or...
by Ryukan | Dec 13, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
(For Columbia City Gallery Literary Series, Dec 13, 2015) “We study the self to lose the self. Only when you forget yourself can you become one with all things.” – Dögen Some brief thoughts about my immediate take on the subject for which we are ostensibly...
by Ryukan | Dec 12, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
More Salish art in this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard and a reference to yet another plant species identified this summer. It really DOES smell like peanut butter, but beards are entirely different, and require a higher degree of hygiene effort that most other...
by Ryukan | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog
Dear Paul Nelson: What do Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), A. Van Jordan, Gish Jen, Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Donna Steiner, Opal Palmer Adisa, Molly Giles, Tomas Moniz, Ron Austin, Ajuan Mance, Paul S. Flores, Arisa White, Jendi...
