by Ryukan | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog
The Tenth August Poetry Postcard Fest is under way and there are a few good links to get caught up with how that is going: The information page with the countdown to NEXT YEAR’s CALL is here. The gift aspect of the fest in many of its manifestations is here. Ina...
by Ryukan | Jul 25, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It is the tenth year of the August Poetry Postcard Fest and as I was taking an afternoon walk this past weekend, it hit me – what a gift this annual event is through and through. Having so many people year after year tell me, email me, or post to the APPF...
by Ryukan | Jul 20, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The tenth year of the Poetry Postcard Fest is under way and there are seven full groups of 32 poets, 224 participants in all, which is a record for the fee era. And there are participants from Alabama, Alberta, Australia, British Columbia, California, Connecticut,...
by Ryukan | Jul 11, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Ina Roy-Faderman: “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Like a lot of writers, I’m a bit of a loner and more than a bit of a night owl. Nighttime is comfortable,...
by Ryukan | Jul 4, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2016 marks the tenth year of the fest and this is your official call. Directions to participate in the fest are linked here. This year poets will be organized in groups of 32...
by Ryukan | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog
From NW Film Forum: Hello Seattle Poetics LAB, We are reaching out to you about a rare Seattle presentation of And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead, at Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill June 29-July 2nd. And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead (2015) is a...
by Ryukan | Jun 14, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Ina Roy: The yearly August Postcard Poetry Festival has become an international event. To celebrate the 10th year of the Fest and the community that has developed around it, we will be creating an anthology of poems written as part of the 2016 August Postcard...
by Ryukan | Jun 13, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The 10th August Poetry Postcard Fest begins on July 4. Registration begins that day here: Buy tickets for Poetry Postcard Fest And poems from this year’s fest can be submitted for the 1st Poetry Postcard Fest Anthology, a project led by three volunteers. (See...
by Ryukan | Jun 3, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Elizabeth Woods checks in from Down Under with a Postcard Fest interview. An excerpt: EW-The festival is now in its tenth year, what are some of the notable aspects a changes you have seen along the way? peN-Each year there is a new wrinkle. I think Judy Kleinberg’s...
by Ryukan | May 31, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The call for the tenth year of the August Poetry Postcard Fest will be released on July 4, 2016, and tickets go on sale at that time. Like last year, as soon as 32 participating poets get signed up, the list will go to them and registration will begin for the next...
by Ryukan | May 15, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Another Georgia O’Keeffe image used for this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard and one of the shortest 2015 postcard poems mostly because of the glossy stock and the difficulty in the actual writing of the poem. Ugh! Also a reference to an auspicious astrological...
by Ryukan | May 8, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Another Georgia O’Keeffe image, this latest August Poetry Postcard Fest poem was sent as prayer for a postcarder in the middle of summer wildfire hell.
by Ryukan | Apr 25, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
One of the cards I brought back from my 2014’s trip to Wisconsin that was part of my work in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. This one with allusions to soul-building with a nod to an old poem from my Auburn days.
by Ryukan | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog
For the first year SPLAB is participating in the Seattle Foundation’s Give Big program. The Seattle Foundation was a supporter of SPLAB from back in our Auburn days (1997-2004), and our 2016 goal is modest, $3,500. We want to guarantee a sold-out house for the...
by Ryukan | Apr 20, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A follow up to the post about my recent trip to Taos, New Mexico. Amalio Madueño is community development specialist and brilliant poet of Yaqui and Tarahumara heritage. I am indebted to Amalio for the thousands of dollars of assistance he’s given to SPLAB and...
