by Ryukan | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
The 4th Cascadia Poetry Festival will happen Nov 3-6, 2016 in Seattle at the Spring Street Center. This year’s festival is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Denise Levertov who lived in Seattle for the last 8 years of her life and is buried here. A...
by Ryukan | Oct 30, 2016 | Blog
The fourth Cascadia Poetry Festival begins Thursday and we invite you to be part of the conversation. This post serves as a primer for some of the key opportunities. Gold Passes for entry into all events (except workshops and the Slam) are $35 and available at Brown...
by Ryukan | Oct 23, 2016 | Blog
There are two remarkable workshops being offered at the 4th Cascadia Poetry Festival in Seattle, November 3-6. Both are on Friday morning, November 4. Space is limited for both workshops. Daphne Marlatt, the remarkable Vancouver poet associated with the TISH group of...
by Ryukan | Oct 16, 2016 | Blog
Our second Massive Open Online Course begins tomorrow and runs four weeks through the Canvas portal. The course is being taught by Cascadia College teacher Jared Leising, in association with SPLAB, and is timed to coincide with the 4th Cascadia Poetry Festival. Week...
by Ryukan | Oct 15, 2016 | Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (pdf) CASCADIA POETRY FESTIVAL TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 3-6 IN SEATTLE Schedule includes Public Readings, Workshops and a Tribute to Denise Levertov. Seattle, WA, October 15, 2016— The Cascadia Poetry Festival is an international event which gathers...
by Ryukan | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
Brian Turner, Iraq-war veteran and author of the highly acclaimed Here Bullet is the headliner of the 2nd Tacoma Poetry Festival. Registration is now open for the two-day Festival, happening at the Tacoma Public Utilities Building on Friday evening, October 21, and...
by Ryukan | Oct 10, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Sad to report that one of the longtime August Poetry Postcard Fest participants, Bridget Nutting of Vancouver, Washington, died yesterday, Sunday, October 9, 2016. From her son Josh: On Sunday October 09, after several years of battling high blood pressure, multiple...
by Ryukan | Oct 7, 2016 | Blog
Competitions have been part of two different Cascadia Poetry Festivals. (2014 and 2015). This year we did not find volunteers willing to facilitate a slam, but we were blessed with interest from the Slam community to stage a Cascadia Regional Poetry Slam as a...
by Ryukan | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
One of the most important poets ever to live and work in Seattle, Denise Levertov died in 1997. There is no mention of her time in Seattle outside the Seward Park house she called home for eight years, but thanks to the Rainier Valley Rotary, SPLAB is spear-heading an...
by Ryukan | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog
From PageBoy Magazine: PageBoy invites you to submit original work in any form on the theme “writers on writers.” Please consider writing something on your favorite author, or your least favorite author; or on an author you feel deserves more attention, or...
by Ryukan | Sep 7, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
There’s not much more I can say about the 2016 August Poetry Postcard Fest that I did not say in the first of two videos that I created today (Sept 7, 2016): And to pick out highlights is so difficult, but you may be seeing some of the best of the 53 cards...
by Ryukan | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
From the Nimrod Journal: Call for Submissions LEAVING HOME, FINDING HOME Home. It’s a concept that stretches across all cultures and all times. But what makes a home? Why do we sometimes seek out new homes, or refuse to leave the homes we already have? How do we...
by Ryukan | Aug 31, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Such a bittersweet feeling to drop off my last three poetry postcards at the post office. Even though there is a mailbox downstairs here at the swinging Angeline and a mailbox on the corner of Edmunds and R.A.S. basically across the street, I mailed almost all of my...
by Ryukan | Aug 22, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I love it when different parts of my life intersect, reinforce, inform one another, validate, how ever you want to put it. It took an Einstein, I am told, to say: “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” I have been tracking the astrology...
by Ryukan | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
It is a rather remarkable thing to have in a city: an all-poetry bookstore. Cambridge, MA and Boulder, CO, are the only two USAmerican cities (besides Seattle) I believe with such a cultural nexus. And for many years the people who made Seattle’s all poetry...
