by Ryukan | Jul 29, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I know what you are thinking. Don’t put any more energy into things like this, but my strong sense of justice is begging me to respond. So, after changing another dirty diaper from my 3 year old and reading her a pre-nap story of Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore (also...
by Ryukan | Jul 27, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The signup for the 9th August Poetry Postcard Fest is final and the list has been sent to all participants. The total number of participants is down from an all-time high in 2014 – 423, to 208 in 2015, but the addition of a small signup fee discouraged some and...
by Ryukan | Jul 24, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I was taking my corridor walk June 23, 2015, and was stunned by the reflection of the sun on wavelets of Lake Washington. I tried to get a decent video capture of the phenomenon (after looking at a Seagull I thought was a Blue Heron) and you get some idea from that. I...
by Ryukan | Jul 20, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A few random questions posed by participants, or would-be participants, in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. By the way, this is your last call for registration as that ends July 27 at 12:01 a.m. 1) Can I start now or do I have to wait until August? By all means...
by Ryukan | Jul 16, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I got an unsigned email this morning about the postcard fest: hello paul wondering – why is there a fee for participating now? what is done with over $4000 you would collect if over 400 sign up (and pay) again? i have done the august postcard poetry event for...
by Ryukan | Jul 14, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
by Ryukan | Jul 13, 2015 | Blog
The Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Competition awards contracts to one Canadian and one international poet each year. Winners receive 50 copies of their chapbook as well as publicity and $100.00 to put towards refreshments for a launch party in their home town. Everyone...
by Ryukan | Jul 7, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Being a William Carlos Williams fan, this story was a natural for me. A scholar by the name of William Logan, a professor at the University of Florida, (with help from a local historian) did the research to find the identity of the man who owned the red wheelbarrow in...
by Ryukan | Jul 7, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’m back in that mode again, a time of year when poetry gets right to the front of my daily consciousness. Some who know me would argue that it is that way anyway, but during the annual August Poetry Postcard Fest this becomes more pronounced. Walks, news...
by Ryukan | Jul 5, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
First an update on the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. We have 70 signups in the first 44 hours and the first two groups are complete. Lists have been sent out to groups 1 & 2. Participants in the first two groups represent: Mobile AL, Tuscaloosa AL, Castlegar...
by Ryukan | Jul 4, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2015 marks year nine 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 and the list will...
by Ryukan | Jun 8, 2015 | Blog
I remember the late Marion Kimes saying that Red Sky Poetry Theater was successful in part because of some of the spinoff groups that came from it, including Subtext and SPLAB. SPLAB takes a modicum of pride in the highly successful Breadline reading series which was...
by Ryukan | May 31, 2015 | Blog
Bless Mary Ann Moore for her wonderful review of the new anthology of Cascadia Poetry Make It True. Dig: In Lowther’s poem, Nuu-chah-nulth, Good Advice, the decolonization of “my mind,” aligns very nicely with co-editor Paul Nelson’s introductory words about the...
by Ryukan | May 16, 2015 | Blog
There are two short and very sweet write-ups on the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival staged in Nanaimo, BC, on Vancouver Island Apr 30-May 3. The first by young poet Winter Darbley starts: I knew that I was going to have fun the minute I walked up to the campus and saw...
by Ryukan | May 14, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I love this notion of pre-bedtime suggestions. I have been doing that the last few months, or more based on the latest poems to be posted here from the ongoing series After The Japanese. I have been posting the poems in hunks of four the last few months and it...
