by Ryukan | Dec 30, 2017 | Blog
Join us for the 2nd Easy Speak Rainier Beach on New Year’s Day 2018! Are we waiting for poetry in the new year? NO! All open mic at a special time 5-8pm at Jude’s, with craft cocktails, tasty dinner items and YOUR OPEN MIC performance. More info here....
by Ryukan | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog
It is with great excitement that we announce an extension of the popular Easy Speak reading series to Jude’s Old Town in Rainier Beach on the first Monday of each month beginning on December 4, 2017. The Easy Speak series started five years ago at the Wedgwood...
by Ryukan | Nov 19, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I was delighted to participate in the open mic called Poetry Bridge, Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at the C&P Coffeehouse aka: West Seattle’s Living Room. Leopoldo Seguel holds court, introduces the featured readers and tapes, edits and posts on YouTube the...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2017 | Blog
Thanks to Ra’anan David, video of the main events from the 5th Cascadia Poetry Festival, held October 12-15, 2017, in Tacoma, are now online: 7:30 Friday Main Stage: Readings featuring scheduled poets: Patricia Smith, Bruce Weigl, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucia...
by Ryukan | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog
Some reviews of CPF5 (Tacoma, WA, Oct 12-15, 2017) by some participants: I’ve been to many poetry festivals over the years, and the Cascadia Festival is one of the best at combining literary energy with explorations of environmental, political, historical, and...
by Ryukan | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog
Thanks to Dale King and the Puget Sound Poetry Connection, Humanities Washington and Arts WA, and many other sponsors, volunteers, the SPLAB Board, Small Press Fair participants, brilliant poets and inspired attendees, we’re humbled and thrilled by the success...
by Ryukan | Oct 13, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The anthology 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards is out in the world and the three co-editors were among the poets reading from the book and discussing their practice of creating, composing and mailing poetry postcards. Ina Roy-Faderman, Judy Kleinberg and your...
by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog
I was stunned and humbled by this remarkable article on our festival, which starts tomorrow. Paul Constant wrote it and has been tracking our fest for a few years now. Glad he got some things out of the way and am grateful he gets what we’re doing. An excerpt:...
by Ryukan | Oct 4, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It used to be that the summer in Seattle had very little in the way of literary arts events. When Labor Day weekend came around, poets got caught up at Bumbershoot at the Bookfair and the Sunday night Red Sky Theater Open Mic. A new literary season would begin. Not so...
by Ryukan | Sep 30, 2017 | Blog
Please join us for the 5th Cascadia Poetry Festival in Tacoma. See the whole schedule here. Registration for all events, except workshops, is $25 and linked here. Highlights: Thursday, October 12 7pm – Launch of 56 Days: Poetry Postcards, King’s Books, 218...
by Ryukan | Sep 25, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Some events of note for those interested in my work: Monday, October 2, 2017, I have been invited to read for the Striped Water Poets in Auburn, Washington at the Rainbow Cafe, 7pm, 112 E. Main Street. Bill Yake will also read and it will be my second reading in...
by Ryukan | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
The 5th Cascadia Poetry Festival happens in Tacoma, Oct 12-15, 2017. Among the Main Stage poets are Michael McClure (5 days before his 85th birthday), CA Conrad, Patricia Smith, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Bruce Weigl, Philip Red Eagle, WA Poet Laureate Tod Marshall and...
by Ryukan | Sep 8, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Although the August Poetry Postcard Fest is over (it IS September after all) cards I sent out on the 31st have probably not arrived at their final destination and the APPF Facebook group is still crankin’ with people posting about not yet having sent all their...
by Ryukan | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
Some workshop slots are available to Gold Pass holders for the 5th Cascadia Poetry Festival in Tacoma, October 12-15, 2017. See the schedule here, including poets Michael McClure, Patricia Smith, Ianthe Brautigan, Bruce Weigl, Tod Marshall, Sharon Thesen, Lorna Dee...
by Ryukan | Sep 1, 2017 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Nothing signifies the end of summer in Cascadia like rain and it is raining as I write this. This year especially. 60+ days of no measurable precipitation makes me feel a little guilty about all the rain going to Texas and Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Harvey. Of...
