by Ryukan | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog
Dear Paul, I hope this email finds you well! I’m staring out my window in Tacoma watching folks take pictures of the glass art bridge across the way. Always nice to see such curiosity. I wonder if I may ask you for a favor. I am teaching a community class on...
by Ryukan | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog
Dear Reader, Kaurab ONLINE’s new issue (No. 38) was released this week. This issue showcases new work by a talented group of lush green poets like Angshuman, Rishi Sourak, Arnab Roy, Chhandam Mukhopadhyay, Srija Ghosh, Tanmay Goswami along with some of our...
by Ryukan | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog
Michael Rothenberg has sent you a message. Date: 3/02/2013 Subject: Show Your Support For The New Issue of Big Bridge! Big Bridge stands, for these last fifteen years, as the premiere and most important metazine of the arts. It is both a growing archive of these...
by Ryukan | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog
Dear Writers from A River Runs Through Us issue of About Place Journal, I’m sending you an invitation to submit to the upcoming issue of “About Place Journal”, Earth Spirit Society. It is an issue conceived of to honor the memory of Patricia...
by Ryukan | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog
REMINDER: DEADLINE & THEME FOR VOL. 18, #1-2, SUMMER, 2013, ISSUE THEME: “WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO.” Theme: human behavior, rather than animal or plant behaviors, boils down to action, to human activity: “Why We Do What We Do.” That’s...
by Ryukan | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog
Hi all, My name is Ben Falandays and I am a fourth year undergrad at the University of Delaware. I’m currently in the process of writing a thesis concerning the shifting practices of creation and consumption in poetry that come with the digital media. As a part...
by Ryukan | Feb 27, 2013 | Blog
Dear SPLAB Staff, We are writing to ask that you share this upcoming opportunity with the community through your website and calendar. Children, teens and adults are invited to celebrate National Poetry Month and enter The Seattle Public Library’s first haiku contest....
by Ryukan | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog
How does one communicate the essence of three decades of conducting interviews? I have had to do that, and quick, as a grant deadline is approaching and I save the worst of the grant writing process for last. I decided on a medley of some of the moments in those last...
by Ryukan | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog
From Tammy Robacker: CALL FOR POETRY—South Sound Poets WRIST Magazine Announces Special ALL-POETRY Issue for April 2013! Write about your sorrows, your wishes, your passing thoughts, your belief in anything beautiful. –Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young...
by Ryukan | Feb 17, 2013 | Blog
(From Alison Jennings): POETS SEEKING POETS A poetry writing group in the North End near Mill Creek is now open to additional members. We are a small group of poets whose goal is to create poems of publishable quality through is pfizer viagra available in india honest...
by Ryukan | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog
Peter Munro has graciously invited me to feature at his Wedgwood Ale House open mic on Monday Feb 11, 2013. Showtime 8:30P. I was hoping to have my book of essays, Organic Poetry, out in time, but no luck. News on canada online pharmacy propecia that release coming...
by Ryukan | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog
From Graham Isaac: Hi! It’s been about four years since the last one, but I’m pleased to announce that I’ve finished a new chapbook, called Filthy Jerry’s Guide to Parking Lots, out this month on Babel/Salvage. (it didn’t take four years...
by Ryukan | Jan 27, 2013 | Blog
One of the more interesting, non-affiliated poetry programs in the country is in my hometown. Check this out and support if you have even $10: CSoP offers compelling poetry classes without the MFA time commitment, pressure, or price tag. (Fear-free) What is CSoP? The...
by Ryukan | Jan 25, 2013 | Blog
From Al Filries: Dear Paul Nelson, I am thrilled to announce that we are now taking enrollments for the second running of ModPo. Here’s the link: https://www.coursera.org/course/modernpoetry We start on Saturday, September 7. Ten weeks plus two days later, on Monday,...
by Ryukan | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog
I was delighted when Greg Bem sent me a link that led to Michael McClure featured in the New Yorker, of all places. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/01/poetry-questions-michael-mcclure.html His poem Mephisto 20 is published there, though you need to be...