by Ryukan | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog
The Nanaimo Local Organizing Committee has updated the poster for the closing reading at this year’s Cascadia POetry Festival. We hope to see you in Nanaimo.
by Ryukan | Apr 12, 2015 | Blog
This was originally posted on the Cascadia Poetry Festival by Kim Clark (below). See also an interview your humble narrator did with Peter last year. (http://paulenelson.com/2014/06/29/peter-culleys-hammertown/) He will be missed. * * * Peter Culley, one of our local...
by Ryukan | Apr 9, 2015 | Blog
David McCloskey’s map of Cascadia has been chosen to grace the cover of ESRI’s annual Map Book, which contains about 50 of the best new maps from around the world for 2014! David will officially unveil the new map at the Cascadia Poetry Festival in Nanaimo...
by Ryukan | Apr 8, 2015 | Blog
This (A Poet’s Nanaimo) on the fest from Nanaimo poet Mary Ann Moore’s blog: Wherever we let the land belong Old stone wall, the house at Indian Beach. Village women, another lifetime, their voices, and the drums. There’s an old stone wall near Indian...
by Ryukan | Apr 5, 2015 | Blog
Samar Albuhassan joined your humble narrator for a SPLAB-on-the-Road workshop at the Newcastle Library in Renton, WA, Saturday April 4, 2015. While the group gathered was small, perhaps due to the holiday weekend, they were inspired and witnessed a poetry bout...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog
The 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival is coming up April 30-May 3 and the Nanaimo Local Organizing Committee has been working their asses off. I am convinced their work will pay off. You know you can read your own work at the daily Living Room session? Consider attending...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog
I got this note via email this past week and thought you might be interested: Hello, My name is Kate Mazzera and I work for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a nonprofit committed to a world free of nuclear weapons. We are interested in promoting our “Barbara...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2015 | Blog
Mary Ann Moore has sent this wonderful invite to her poetry friends: Hello friends from afar (not that far): Nanaimo is filled with poetry! It’s the skin of our city, poet Kim Goldberg says. We have a poet laureate, Naomi Beth Wakan; a poem gallery (at the downtown...
by Ryukan | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog
Three guys who met at SPLAB and started one of Seattle’s top poetry readings are putting together an anthology and need some funding. From Alex Bleecker: Hello artists, friends, and family members of the illustrious line of bread! We’ve been announcing...
by Ryukan | Mar 5, 2015 | Blog
The pub crawl is a tradition that goes back to the 19th century. A group gets together and drinks in a series of bars. Maybe the participants are new to a town. In Australia they had over 4,000 people do a pub crawl once, a Guinness world record. LIT Crawls go back...
by Ryukan | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2:15 – 5:15pm Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Bldg. 355, Room 103 ($60?!?)
by Ryukan | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog
The IndieGoGo campaign for the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival in Nanaimo, BC ends March 11. Check out the incredible premiums to support the festival: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cascadia-poetry-festival-nanaimo-2015-apr-30-may-3/x/1411213 Robert Bringhurst,...
by Ryukan | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog
Greg Bem has initiated a YouTube channel for videos connected with the Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB). See: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgBVuO_ko5H2_GsXxgKO8kQ Related video can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Splabman Other video can be found here:...
by Ryukan | Mar 1, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am so envious of these four chapbooks and delighted they were gifts recently given to me. All from Cascadians and all quite worth while. Wikipedia (by way of the O.E.D.) says: “Chapbook is first attested in English in 1824, and seems to derive from the word...
by Ryukan | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog
From Robert Flor: Seattle, WA: On April 10th and 11th, 2015, La Sala and Pinoy Words Expressed Kultura Arts (PWEKA) will present three Latino/a and three Filipino/a poets who will consider the influence of Latino and Filipino mythology on poetry. During two events...
