by Ryukan | Dec 3, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Another one of my 2014 photographs turned into postcard, this one begins the summer-long fascination with chicory. Once identified (thank you Carol Blackbird Edson), I began to eat as many of the petals as I could find and also found chicory showing up in the OTHER...
by Ryukan | Dec 3, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Even though the clock is ticking down until next year’s August Poetry Postcard Fest (Year Ten!), some folks have not fully completed their 2015 tasks, including the intrepid Judy Kleinberg. She just posted her 2015 wrapup: There will be a few tweaks to the fest...
by Ryukan | Nov 30, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
More Salish art (one of my favorite card images) and a little piece of Wanda Coleman’s fire, in which you don’t eliminate clichés, per se, but “twist” them. Also, a nod to two different Benny Goodman/Charlie Christian tunes, Breakfast Feud and Air Mail...
by Ryukan | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
Dear EBSN Members: The CFP for the Fifth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, which will take place in Manchester in June 2016, can be found on our website HERE. We would be very grateful if you could distribute this CFP, and note that further...
by Ryukan | Nov 9, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
In this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard poem, again a great Kyger quote which makes me think of field poetics, a subject her friend Robert Duncan had a thing or two to say about. Also a reference to Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who recently returned to...
by Ryukan | Oct 29, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
More Salish art and a poem resulting from what the postcard fest instructions suggested since year 1, that is “something of the here and now” should/could get into the poem. That’s what postcards are after all, no? My ongoing battle with dehydration and the fest as...
by Ryukan | Oct 19, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The latest poem from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. (See other poems here.) A Georgia O’Keeffe card and great epigraph from Joanne Kyger, the composition of which affected the content. (Wait til the ink dries!)
by Ryukan | Oct 12, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This poem reminds me of the on and off dialog I have been having with a Canadian poet who is down on post-modernism because much of it is: “gibberish” in his view, but whose own work is clichéd and sentimental. How would one translate whale speak into a poem. It...
by Ryukan | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB) brings two poets into one space for an evening of readings. Join us for this literary event in the heart of Seattle’s Capitol Hill. A $5 suggested donation will support the readers. Magdalena Zurawski’s poetry collection,...
by Ryukan | Oct 4, 2015 | Blog
The first Rainier Valley Lit Crawl happened Sunday, March 8, 2015 and the second one is to happen later this month. Jeanne Morel, Ra’anan David and Barbara Erwine are the curators. All three were active at SPLAB when we had our venue in Columbia City. Wendy Call...
by Ryukan | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog
The cool cooperative gallery in the heart of Seattle’s Columbia City historical district is going to be presenting a series of Literary Arts events centered around a certain theme: Columbia City Gallery announces its new Literary series. Meeting every second...
by Ryukan | Sep 30, 2015 | Blog
Tuesday, October 13 7-9pm Free Dreams, Travelogs & Artist Books: a talk, reading and mini-trunk show by poet Marilyn Stablein A June 2015 interview she did with Paul Nelson can be heard here. A newspaper article from Sept 15 is here. Marilyn Stablein is an...
by Ryukan | Sep 29, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest poem continues the “being as comedian” thread from the last poem, makes a reference to a direction in a prompt I saw online and alludes to some of the more out of line kvetching brought on by the implementation of a fee for the...
by Ryukan | Sep 29, 2015 | Blog
Saturday, Oct 10th, 5pm Sam Hamill to Read from Habitation Sam Hamill returns to Vashon to read from Habitation at the Vashon Bookshop on Saturday, October 10, at 5pm. Hamill, author of more than forty books, including celebrated translations from ancient Chinese,...
by Ryukan | Sep 24, 2015 | Blog
Part of the Tacoma Arts Month celebration, the inaugural Tacoma Poetry Fest happens Friday, October 16th and Saturday, October 17th at the Tacoma Public Utilities Building Auditorium. Headliner David Wagoner and the former Poets Laureate of Tacoma will read Friday...
