by Ryukan | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog
From Jared Leising: Hi, I’m writing with some exciting news. In collaboration with Cascadia College and Cascadia Poetics Lab, we’re offering a free, online course through the CANVAS Network on innovative poetry of the Cascadia bioregion. It’s easy to...
by Ryukan | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog
Ann Graham Walker just published a wonderful article on the history and mission of the Cascadia Poetry Festival. See: http://issuu.com/fbcw/docs/201410-issuu/23?e=13919309/9724638 Thanks Ann.
by Ryukan | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog
Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB) brings three 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 and the event is being curated and hosted by SPLAB...
by Ryukan | Dec 26, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I did this last year, a post of the top ten posts/pages of the year. I excluded American Sentences and all individual pages associated with that daily practice and also Organic Poetry and individual essays under that rubric. I’ve also included only two of the...
by Ryukan | Nov 30, 2014 | Blog
Reports are still coming in but it is apparent that longtime Red Sky poet David Whited who died yesterday morning. Michael Hureaux said: “Great poet and one of the silliest and laughingest men life could ever bless a person’s presence with. The world has...
by Ryukan | Nov 24, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
WooHoo! The last 2014 August Poetry Postcard! (See all here.) And with only 221 days until the next call goes out. Hawthorn Presence uses an image I took on my cellphone of the house Denise Levertov lived in, images of my visit with Charles Potts in Walla Walla and...
by Ryukan | Nov 23, 2014 | Blog
One of the top journals in Cascadia is branching out and needs your support. I am awed by the depth of this journal and their latest, a tribute to George Bowering is stunning. A must-have for anyone serious about poetry in this bioregion and beyond. Quite compelling...
by Ryukan | Nov 22, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Passing Lane is another 2014 August Postcard Poem, but this one reflects a life firmly back home after my visit to Mexico, firmly into the routine of taking walks in my Hillman City/Seward Park neighborhood, learning the names of local plants (which may not be local)...
by Ryukan | Nov 18, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Driving the Redwood Highway is one of the most wonderful road trips I could ever imagine. Starting from Grants Pass, Oregon, stopping at Dutch Bros coffee to get an Irish Creme latté, you soon head southwest and go through stands of old growth Redwoods and along...
by Ryukan | Nov 17, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
by Ryukan | Nov 11, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Not too many postcard poems from 2014 left. (Whew!) This one features another Germán Montalvo image and is an homage to Denise Levertov. Long live the organic! (Well, until it decomposes.) A link to all 2014 August Postcard poems here.
by Ryukan | Nov 11, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
496. The Occasional Chicharrón has more Congress and Puebla reflections, another reference to Vargas Lugo’s butterfly nation flags and the impending USAmerican football season, the advent of which signals the end of summer in many different ways. The intense violence...
by Ryukan | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog
This FREE & ALL AGES event will be filled with poetry and music and community – you won’t want to miss it. Monday, November 10, 2014 6:30 PM Doors I 7:30 PM Show The Moore Theatre, 1932 2nd Ave, Seattle Ride Metro the Moore! kingcounty.gov/tripplanner RSVP on...
by Ryukan | Oct 28, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
by Ryukan | Oct 28, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The latest postcard poem from the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. August 19, 2014, Seattle, WA “Holiness does not dissolve, it is a presence / of bronze.” – Denise Levertov The Cholula sacramental marching band scatters rose petals in a trail...
