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
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...
