by Ryukan | Sep 13, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I got back yesterday from a short (annual) backpacking trip to the Olympic National Wilderness. I have tried each year to recreate a 1995 experience of visiting the Olympic Mountains, specifically the Boulder Creek watershed and Appleton Pass. This year, like the last...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog
The third annual celebration of poetry and peace, Poems for Peace, sponsored by the Subud International Cultural Association, is set for Saturday, September 20, 2014, at 7PM at the Spring Street Center/Seattle Subud House, 1101 15th Av, Seattle, on the corner of 15th...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This is the second of two intentional collage poems I wrote during the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. (More on all my 2014 postcard poems here.)
by Ryukan | Sep 6, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Inspiration for this poem came, in part, from a dream.
by Ryukan | Sep 3, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
by Ryukan | Sep 3, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’ve blogged about the inspiration for this poem before but here is the text and postcard image and below find the Soundcloud widget.
by Ryukan | Aug 25, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It was quite a melange of cultures in Puebla during the 14th Subud World Congress August 1-17, 2014. (See my previous posts here and here.) To give you some sense of how diverse the event was, these lines went into a postcard poem written while in Puebla: & this...
by Ryukan | Aug 25, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This poem continues from the last postcard poem and Levertov’s notion of the acts that serve as counterstrokes to the ills of the world. She would have been writing about WWII, a war in which she served as nurse so saw the atrocities first hand. She would also...
by Ryukan | Aug 24, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
As with all 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest poems, this one uses Levertov again as the source of its epigraph and the poem continues the theme of that quote and it weaves through familiar territory, including the time spent in the community garden (p-patch), the...
by Ryukan | Aug 24, 2014 | Blog
NANAIMO, BC – The Cascadia Poetry Festival is coming to Nanaimo. The third in an annual festival series that originated in 2012 in Seattle, CPF3-2015 is expected to bring more than four-hundred visitors to eat, sleep and soak up some great poetry in this...
by Ryukan | Aug 23, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The fourth poem from the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest, this one continues in the theme of the notion of The Practice of Outside. That an ancestor of Levertov was said to be able to understand the language of birds would make her more likely to understand the...
by Ryukan | Aug 23, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Here is the 3rd postcard poem from this year’s fest and my 473rd overall since the postcard fest started in 2007. I love the Levertov quote to begin this poem. How many times do we hear poems that long for something? Put down the pen and DO IT you want to scream...
by Ryukan | Aug 22, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
My second poem from the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest was inspired by a dream and by my ongoing investigation into how my body responds to certain negative thought patterns. The card is a photo of a Clyfford Still painting and Mer, Ella and I were fortunate enough...
by Ryukan | Aug 22, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This is the first poem I wrote for the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. It was inspired by a renewed plunge into Carla Bley’s landmark album Escalator Over The Hill. (Audio. Pdf.) If you listen to the record, you’ll have more context. Gato in this poem...
by Ryukan | Aug 20, 2014 | Blog
Thanks to the heroic efforts of cameraman and videographer Tom Prince, video of the Marion Kimes Memorial, Sunday July 27, at the Spring Street Center is now online. Thank you Tom and to Phoebe Bosche, Scott Martin and all those who helped make this event possible....
