by Ryukan | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog
Our IndieGoGo campaign has some WONDERFUL premiums, like bourbon (&/or tea) with translator Red Pine and sushi with Sam Hamill, among other things. Sponsors include: 4Culture 826 seattle Cascadia Community College Cascadia Now Central Co-op (Madison Market) Leaf...
by Ryukan | Mar 28, 2014 | Blog
Presenting: Runoff! the Cascadia Poetry Festival Beer Slam Qualifier Sunday April 6th, 8p.m. at Naked City Brewing In anticipation of Cascadia Poetry Festival’s Beer Slam, where poets of all styles and locations from around Cascadia show their swagger, Naked...
by Ryukan | Mar 25, 2014 | Blog
This from the EasySpeak folks: Tell us your poems, sing us your songs, speak us your paragraphs. Or give us anything else you can perform in five minutes. Greetings Easy Speakers, If you thought you were going to get a break from Easy Speak on the fifth Monday of the...
by Ryukan | Mar 20, 2014 | Blog
Registration for The Small Press Fair at the Cascadia Poetry Festival continues. Those already registered include: Pageboy Magazine, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Headmistress Press, Ravenna Press, Cascadia Now!, The Common Acre, StringTown Press, LitFuse Poets...
by Ryukan | Mar 16, 2014 | Blog
When touting Seattle’s status as a literary town, inevitably Open Books is noted, one of (now) three all poetry bookstores in the US of A. And sometimes those who note it have actually been there and John Marshall and Christine Deavel know and remember. Asked...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2014 | Blog
The schedule for the Cascadia Poetry Festival continues to come together. The kickoff reading is Thursday, May 1, 7:30p, the Force Field reading, featuring poets from the first all women anthology of British Columbia poets in 34 years. Judith Roche is emcee. Poets...
by Ryukan | Mar 10, 2014 | Blog
Now that AWP has left Seattle, we can turn our attention to bioregional poetry matters. The Small Press Fair at the Cascadia Poetry Festival is accepting registration and those already registered include Pageboy Magazine, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Headmistress...
by Ryukan | Mar 8, 2014 | Blog
From: Stacy Lasner slasner@poets.org via yahoo.com Hi Paul, I am the Publicity & Outreach Coordinator for the Academy of American Poets. I’m writing with the hope that you will help us spread the word about an educational project that the Academy has...
by Ryukan | Feb 20, 2014 | Blog
There are three, count ’em THREE off-site readings happening this week as part of the fiesta of writers that is known as the annual AWP Conference, which is in Seattle this year. Events will be held at Spring Street Center, in Seattle, a lovely facility 1.1...
by Ryukan | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog
Registration continues for the Cascadia Poetry Festival Small Press Fair, May 2-4, 2014, in the Paccar Atrium of Seattle University. For $100, participating organizations (not limited to small presses) will receive: Small Press Fair table, 4 feet. 4 Gold Passes...
by Ryukan | Feb 13, 2014 | Blog
From Jenny Penberthy: WORKSHOP Date: Sunday, March 16, 12:00-5:00pm Cost: $50 Location: The Apartment Gallery, Vancouver, BC: Poetry Looking Out: http://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/poetry-workshop-with-cole-swensen/ This workshop, engaging both generative and...
by Ryukan | Feb 8, 2014 | Blog
From Judith Roche: Dear Friends and Colleagues, You are invited to a reception/informal poetry reading event on the Thursday of AWP, February 27th, 7:00PM- 11:PM. The event is sponsored by Black Earth Institute and we are inviting writers who have had work in About...
by Ryukan | Feb 5, 2014 | Blog
Floating Bridge Press is now accepting submissions for its 19th annual Poetry Chapbook Award! Who is eligible: Washington State poets How to submit: Electronic submissions only (seewww.floatingbridgepress.org) Reading fee: $12.00 Page limit: 24 pages Deadline:...
by Ryukan | Feb 2, 2014 | Blog
To dwell with conifers. Eaves drip, echo cedar’s arm shedding water down Spray scales waxy (cover you lost. -Daphne Marlatt from the poem Under published in Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now My cultural investigation of the bioregion known as Cascadia...
by Ryukan | Jan 27, 2014 | Blog
Part of the reason SPLAB started the Cascadia Poetry Festival was to build better connections between all poets of the bioregion, with an emphasis on innovators. Today begins a series of posts leading up to Cascadia II on some of the poets participating in the...
