by Ryukan | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog
From Cascadia Now: Welcome! We’d like to invite you, your group or organization to our first ever Cascadia Rainingman festival, happening in the foothills of the Cascade mountains near Concrete, WA August 29th – September 1st. **Please share with anyone...
by Ryukan | Jul 23, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Signup for the 2014 fest is over. Website Countdown Clock Countdown Widgets The original call is here and is required reading for anyone participating. To participate, send your name, mailing address & email to splabman@gmail.com. Use the word “postcard” in the...
by Ryukan | Jul 20, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’ve jumped the gun on the August 2013 Poetry Postcard Fest and I encourage you to do the same. Yes, there’s already a primer on how to write the postcard poem (see this) but I have taken this to be my process over the last couple of years and wanted to...
by Ryukan | Jul 18, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am planning the third Poems for Peace event on September 21 at 7PM at Spring Street Center. Last year this was the post. This was how I connected the poetry postcard fest with the Poems for Peace event and with peace-making in general. Here is the audio from last...
by Ryukan | Jul 16, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
OK poets! At this point we are one over the record 302 poets we set last year, but I am sure we’ll get much past that. I have sent a list via email and am posting the instructions here as well for easy reference. North American states and provinces included in...
by Ryukan | Jul 4, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It is almost August once again and this means POSTCARDS! The August Poetry Postcard Project is an exercise in responding to other poets. You write a poem a day for the month of August, write it directly onto a postcard and send it to the next name on your list. When...
by Ryukan | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog
Jun. 29, 2014 Dear Enpipeliners and Friends, As many of you know, on Jun. 17, the Canadian government approved Enbridge’s Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline. Some of us may experience grief. Although the approval is a step backwards, we also know that Enbridge does...
by Ryukan | Jun 25, 2014 | Blog
Remembering Marion Kimes, poet (March 28, 1930 — March 31, 2014) July 27, 2014 2-5pm Sunday Procession: 1:00pm Led by Martha Linehan A walk from Coastal Kitchen (429 15th Ave. E., Seattle 98112) to Spring Street Center. We will converge in front of C. Kitchen...
by Ryukan | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog
Pre-order a limited edition of a “fat selected” of the life work of Sam Hamill from Lost Horse Press:
by Ryukan | May 9, 2014 | Blog
The second Cascadia Poetry Festival was a huge success, both in terms of the content, the depth of the dialog and the finances. Blog posts are rolling in from Joanne Arnott: http://joannearnott.blogspot.ca/2014/05/cascadia-poetry-festival.html Kim Goldberg:...
by Ryukan | Apr 27, 2014 | Blog
The largest single event SPLAB has ever done starts Thursday, May 1, at 7:30PM at Spring Street Center. The 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival happens there and at Seattle U. There will be 6 poetry readings, 3 Living Room (free, democratic, open) reading sessions, five...
by Ryukan | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog
Frances McCue is not only reading at the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival at the closing reading, but also has turned in a fine review of the Force Field anthology of BC women poets. Excerpt: “Touring the book was a pleasure. The collection of poems is arranged in...
by Ryukan | Apr 19, 2014 | Blog
Joanne Kyger is one of the headliners at the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival. Because of her involvement in the Spicer Circle/San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s, which included poets like Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser and George Stanley (also headlining Cascadia...
by Ryukan | Apr 8, 2014 | Blog
Where else would one take a for-credit course by attending the Cascadia Poetry Festival? Cascadia Comunity College. Jared Leising is developing and teaching the course and the description is here: http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/cascadia-poetry-festival-course and...
by Ryukan | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog
For a sense of what TISH was about, and one of the most important movements in Cascadia poetry history, see Kevin Killian’s review of When TISH Happens, the new Frank Davie memoir of the magazine:...
