by Ryukan | Apr 5, 2012 | Blog
The Strangeness of Repetition “It is very like a frog hopping he cannot ever hop exactly the same distance of the same way of hopping at every hop. A bird’s singing is perhaps the nearest thing to repetition but if you listen they too vary their insistence.” —Gertrude...
by Ryukan | Mar 28, 2012 | Blog
Here are links to some of the photographs and summaries of the 1st Cascadia Poetry Festival: Barbara Erwine photos: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=2a6e06a3285ad19c&Bsrc=SkyMail&Bpub=SDX.SkyDrive&sc=Photos&id=2A6E06A3285AD19C!200 Kim Goldberg’s...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2012 | Blog
Synesthesia is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic and involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. We are not talking about constructing clever metaphors here, for...
by Ryukan | Mar 26, 2012 | Blog
We’re still recovering from the very successful Cascadia Poetry Festival which SPLAB conceived of and hosted this past weekend. This week in the Living Room we’ll share our best memories of the just-concluded fest, discuss plans for future iterations and...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2012 | Blog
We are in the final stages of preparation for next weekend’s Cascadia Poetry Festival, which is shaping up to be quite the amazing event, and we’d like to thank you all for your support as Paul and I await our own amazing event: the birth of our daughter...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2012 | Blog
Nico Vassilakis is curating a night of Puget Sound Poetry, Friday, March 23, 2012 7-9P at Vermillion, 1508 11th Av, as a prelude to the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Including: Cristin Miller Molly Mac Fedyk Ezra Mark Crag Hill Nico Vassilakis Joe Milutis Four Hoarse Men:...
by Ryukan | Mar 13, 2012 | Blog
Prose. Poetry. Prose poetry? While the debate where one ends and the other begins is destined to rage into eternity, few would argue that prose often appeals to our sense of language, and poetry often retains a narrative edge. We’ll look at and discuss the...
by Ryukan | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
Great Beer and Poetry: The Cascadia After Party Saturday, March 24, 9:30 p.m. at SPLAB Suggested donation $5.00. (Free to Gold Pass holders. Register here.) Breadline and Richard Hugo House, home of the popular “Cheap Wine and Poetry” Series, combine forces to present...
by Ryukan | Mar 11, 2012 | Blog
Introducing A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology edited by Katharine Whitcomb, Robert Hickey, and Marco Thompson, The Center for Geospatial Poetry at Central Washington University! The project features, via Google Earth, poems by...
by Ryukan | Mar 11, 2012 | Blog
“Igniting the Green Fuse: Women on Eco-poetry” panel moderated by Kim Goldberg (Nanaimo, BC) 12-4P Saturday panel, nature walk and writing prompt: Igniting the Green Fuse: Women on Eco-poetry moderated by Kim Goldberg (Nanaimo, BC) featuring: Catherine Owen...
by Ryukan | Mar 11, 2012 | Blog
Tim McNulty Workshop Description: Images as Windows (Saturday, March 24, 1-3P at SPLAB) In our workshop we’ll explore the power of images to convey meaning, nuance and mood in our poems. We’re review some poems that rely on images, and we’ll jot some images in our...
by Ryukan | Mar 7, 2012 | Blog
Poetry Extraction One purpose of jargon is to rationalize discourse by substituting objective language for subjective language. (Just look at that sentence.) Ironically, removing emotion-soaked terms makes language sound disturbed, robotic. Take this blurb from the...
by Ryukan | Mar 3, 2012 | Blog
The Cascadia Poetry Festival will examine regional poetry culture by gathering renowned poets at SPLAB, to learn, share ideas and techniques & begin to discover the qualities of the region and possibilities for deeper connection. Info/schedule:...
by Ryukan | Mar 3, 2012 | Blog
The 1st Cascadia Poetry Festival is happening at SPLAB March 24 and 25, 2012. Will this be an historic event? Advance reservations are highly suggested and are cheap at $50. Half the space is already taken. & here’s what the Gold Pass looks like:
by Ryukan | Mar 3, 2012 | Blog
I Love this Poem Because ____ Tonight’s question for Living Room is simple, but likely contributes to why we write poetry and participate in the circle in the first place: What is a poem you love? Can you bring one to share? If you can articulate where, how, and why...
