by Ryukan | Jan 27, 2014 | Blog
Part of the reason SPLAB started the Cascadia Poetry Festival was to build better connections between all poets of the bioregion, with an emphasis on innovators. Today begins a series of posts leading up to Cascadia II on some of the poets participating in the...
by Ryukan | Jan 24, 2014 | Blog
Registration is now open for the Cascadia Poetry Festival Small Press Fair, May 2-4, 2014, in the Paccar Atrium of Seattle University. Load-in is 4pm, Friday, May 2, 2014. For $100, each participating organization (not limited to small presses) will receive: Small...
by Ryukan | Jan 21, 2014 | Blog
The Common Acre has stepped up to join the Sightline Institute, Mother Tongue Publishing, 4 Culture and Cascadia Now as a sponsor of the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival. The list is here: Sponsor The Common Acre produces public programs at the intersection of earth and...
by Ryukan | Jan 19, 2014 | Blog
The second Cascadia Poetry Festival happens May 1-4, 2014, at Seattle University’s Pigott Auditorium and Spring Street Center. The following schedule is subject to change. A Gold Pass is $25 for the whole weekend and you can get your Gold Pass here by using...
by Ryukan | Jan 18, 2014 | Blog
Contact: Paul Nelson FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel: 206-422-5002 E-mail: pen@splab.org CASCADIA POETRY FESTIVAL TO BE HELD MAY 1-4 IN SEATTLE Event Includes Workshops, Readings, and...
by Ryukan | Jan 18, 2014 | Blog
We’re pleased to announce legendary Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt will be part of a reading at the Cascadia Poetry Fest and will be conducting a workshop at Spring Street Center, Friday, May 1, 2014, 9a-1p. Cost: $80. Email Paul Nelson at pen@splab.org, or do it...
by Ryukan | Jan 4, 2014 | Blog
Contact: Paul Nelson FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel: 206-422-5002 E-mail: pen@splab.org SPLAB TO CELEBRATE 20Th ANNIVERSARY JANUARY 18th IN SEATTLE (Event Includes Announcement of Cascadia...
by Ryukan | Dec 4, 2013 | Blog
It was December 13, 1993, when It Plays in Peoria Productions was formed in Auburn, Washington. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to, among other things: Injecting a Little Wisdom into the Information Age. We were started as an organization that existed to...
by Ryukan | Dec 2, 2013 | Blog
Raven Chronicles FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DECEMBER 1, 2013 presents A Reading & Reception, celebrating our new publication, RACE: UNDER OUR SKIN, VOL. 19, of Raven Chronicles, A Seattle- based Journal of Art, Literature & The Spoken Word. JOIN US! Open to...
by Ryukan | Nov 24, 2013 | Blog
From T Clear: Greetings Easy Speakers! It’s time again for Easy Speak at the Hummingbird Saloon! I would be more than delighted if you came and shared your songs, poems, shopping lists, paragraphs, memos and all measures of inspired performance that take up no...
by Ryukan | Nov 23, 2013 | Blog
Wanda Coleman died yesterday at 67. She was the SPLAB Visiting Poet in February 2002 and I don’t think I ever met a poet with a spirit as ferocious as hers. My dear friend Ethelbert Miller wrote a wonderful eulogy today and I am sharing it here because I just...
by Ryukan | Nov 19, 2013 | Blog
From Poets & Writers: 953 Lit Mags Seek Submissions Wondering where to submit your work? Our Literary Magazines database lists 953 journals that accept submissions. Listings include detailed information about what, where, and when to submit work for consideration....
by Ryukan | Nov 16, 2013 | Blog
I LOVE Art Space Projects, Inc. out of Minneapolis. They have a great presence here with Catherine Vandenbrink and their new building is just about to be completed. Working artists looking for cheap rent for home or work PLUS a fabulous artist community to be part of...
by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2013 | Poetry Postcard Fest
My posts on the August 2013 Seattle visit of Morrocan poet and Beat scholar El Habib Louai were quite long, (archived here) so I am creating this post in the hopes that viewers of this blog will take a listen to the interview we did at the top of Desolation Peak,...
by Ryukan | Nov 1, 2013 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I have posted all my 2013 POstcard POems in one spot. See: https://wp.me/P1Xnkd-1h7. For more on the fest, see: https://poetrypostcards.blogspot.com/ For the postcard fest Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/17361938720/ The 2014 call will go out shortly...
