by Ryukan | Apr 19, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
ANOTHER devil reference in this latest of the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest and an image of one to boot. I love how the neighbors across the street use a pole with netting at the end to harvest plums. See all poems I wrote in Summer 2015...
by Ryukan | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog
Deadline April 20! PageBoy Magazine, a local and renowned Seattle-area publication, is accepting submissions for its upcoming (May-ish) issue. Submissions will not be accepted after 4/20, so the clock is, as they say, ticking! More info on the process and...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
If you believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine, you know the lung/heart meridian is related to grief. I can’t help thinking that anytime someone has a smoking habit, grief must not be far away. Combine that kind of thinking (radical/root-oriented) with the fact...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2016 | Blog
Who: Colleen McElroy What: Reading from Blood Memory Where: Columbia City Gallery 4864 Rainier Ave S, Seattle WA 98118 When: April 8th, 7 PM. (RSVP please! ((206) 321-5219 or cherelouoma@gmail.com) Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy’s collection of narrative...
by Ryukan | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog
From Eugenia Hepworth Petty Dear Paul, The Inland Poetry website is finally complete! Please feel free to distribute widely. http://www.inlandpoetry.com/ One upcoming event April 9: BAUDELAIRE (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog
This from Jaye Ware: Important Event Post Washington State Poet Laureate Mr. Tod Marshall, appearing Columbia City Library 4721 Rainier Ave S., Seattle, Sunday, April 10, 2016 2:00 – 3:30 pm Free. Lover of poetry? This is a not-to-be-missed event. Jaye Ware,...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Yes, demons were a sub-theme of my work in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. More demons, another memory of the 2014 Subud World Congress in Puebla, Mexico, and an illusion to los feos americanos.
by Ryukan | Mar 9, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I participated in the first World Peace Poets postcard project this past February, after being invited by Carla Shafer. Rather than post every poem I wrote, I have put together a page which will feature all the poems I wrote for the project. The card I chose for #554....
by Ryukan | Mar 4, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The latest poem to be posted from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest:
by Ryukan | Feb 27, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Unlike Chicory, I’ve been eating fennel the last couple of summers. The intensity of this herb is astounding and a wonderful taste that one gets in Cascadia summer. I heard it grows wild north of San Francisco, as we recently saw aside Highway 1 on the way to Stinson...
by Ryukan | Feb 21, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
An August Poetry Postcard from 2015 featuring yet another photo of mine from 2014, this one from the Skokomish Rez, I love the allusion to the American Indian Movement and hope President Obama will finally pardon Leonard Peltier. But the poem is more about...
by Ryukan | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
Please join us Thursday, March 3, 2016, at 7pm for a reading and celebration of the six week Innovative Cascadia Poetry MOOC that ends March 4. The event space is the 6th Floor of the Angeline Apartment building, at 4801 Rainier Av S, in Seattle’s Columbia City...
by Ryukan | Feb 17, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I like to think of it as a good sign in my life when critters are waiting until I pass by to drop from the sky in need of a little aid. Fortunately this recent experience was only a hummingbird, but the thud was palatable and the experience quite humbling. In town for...
by Ryukan | Feb 12, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
For some reason I segued into a memory from my rock n roll DJ days in Appleton, WI (WAPL) with this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest poem from August 11. I was a member of the Leinenkugel Club and required to have at least one cold Leinie’s in the fridge at all...
by Ryukan | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog
Rainier Valley Lit Crawl #3 Consider attending the third iteration of the Rainier Valley Lit Crawl, which brings writers and listeners to Southeast Seattle locations for another night of literary engagement. This lit crawl will include the following venues: Spinnaker...
