by Ryukan | Jul 7, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’m back in that mode again, a time of year when poetry gets right to the front of my daily consciousness. Some who know me would argue that it is that way anyway, but during the annual August Poetry Postcard Fest this becomes more pronounced. Walks, news...
by Ryukan | Jul 5, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
First an update on the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. We have 70 signups in the first 44 hours and the first two groups are complete. Lists have been sent out to groups 1 & 2. Participants in the first two groups represent: Mobile AL, Tuscaloosa AL, Castlegar...
by Ryukan | Jul 4, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2015 marks year nine 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 and the list will...
by Ryukan | Jun 8, 2015 | Blog
I remember the late Marion Kimes saying that Red Sky Poetry Theater was successful in part because of some of the spinoff groups that came from it, including Subtext and SPLAB. SPLAB takes a modicum of pride in the highly successful Breadline reading series which was...
by Ryukan | May 31, 2015 | Blog
Bless Mary Ann Moore for her wonderful review of the new anthology of Cascadia Poetry Make It True. Dig: In Lowther’s poem, Nuu-chah-nulth, Good Advice, the decolonization of “my mind,” aligns very nicely with co-editor Paul Nelson’s introductory words about the...
by Ryukan | May 16, 2015 | Blog
There are two short and very sweet write-ups on the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival staged in Nanaimo, BC, on Vancouver Island Apr 30-May 3. The first by young poet Winter Darbley starts: I knew that I was going to have fun the minute I walked up to the campus and saw...
by Ryukan | May 14, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I love this notion of pre-bedtime suggestions. I have been doing that the last few months, or more based on the latest poems to be posted here from the ongoing series After The Japanese. I have been posting the poems in hunks of four the last few months and it...
by Ryukan | May 13, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am starting to get emails about the August Poetry Postcard Fest. Questions like: 1) Is the fest on this year? (Yes). 2) Can you sign me up now? (No). 3) What are the main changes this year? (This year we’re charging for the first time. It’s a $10 dollar...
by Ryukan | May 6, 2015 | Blog
Having over the keys to a poetry festival you’ve created can be a nerve-wracking experience, unless the people given the keys are BETTER DRIVERS! Huge thanks to the Nanaimo, BC, local organizing committee for making the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival a huge...
by Ryukan | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog
At the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Fest in Nanaimo Friday night, a poetry death match.
by Ryukan | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog
Saturday night (5.2.15) at 10:30PM in Nanaimo at the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival, the After Party. Read one poem and get off the stage. Slam poets give way to sound poets and experimental poets hear from academic poets and the occasional nature poet thrown in. Your...
by Ryukan | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog
Daniel Wolff has published numerous well-received nonfiction books, including a national best-seller that won the Ralph J. Gleason Award for the best music book in 1985. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2003 and was named Literary Artist of 2013 for Rockland County,...
by Ryukan | Apr 22, 2015 | Blog
Poets are getting ready to squeak in Nanaimo: http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/entertainment/300815361.html
by Ryukan | Apr 21, 2015 | Blog
Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, published by Leaf Press, will be launched at VIU Friday, May 1st, at 7:30pm. This anthology is a collection of innovative and influential poets of Cascadia, the bioregion which stretches from Cape Mendocino in the south to Mt. St....
by Ryukan | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog
