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...
by Ryukan | Mar 3, 2012 | Blog
by Ryukan | Feb 24, 2012 | Blog
Abecedarians & Other Constraints This week we’ll take on the notion of the abecedarian and combine it with a page or two from a reference book containing an alphabetical listing of words–the dictionary. From early Hebrew poetry to Harryette Mullen,...
by Ryukan | Feb 21, 2012 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Exercise Ted Berrigan, Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer are among the more notable poets to engage in such a project. Berrigan’s book of them (A Certain Slant on Sunlight) was completed six months before his death in 1983. Alice Notley wrote: the cards as...
by Ryukan | Feb 20, 2012 | Blog
Hi Paul—will you consider filling this out and sending it to your connections? Thanks! Kathleen (P.S. The state’s new Poet Laureate will read at the Cascadia Poetry festival on March 25. Details here.) WASHINGTON STATE POETRY QUESTIONNAIRE My goal as 2012 –...
by Ryukan | Feb 14, 2012 | Blog
“Words can neither define nor explain” -Alan Watts It is not news that the world is in a constant state of flux (just ask the Fluxus poets, or Siddhartha Gautama). Ever-evolving, it parallels life itself; the only thing absolute is amorphousness. In his seminal...
by Ryukan | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog
To paraphrase Bo Diddley: I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie A brand new house on the road side, and it’s a-made out of rattlesnake hide Got a band new chimney put on top, and it’s a-made out of human skull Come on...
by Ryukan | Feb 5, 2012 | Blog
This week in the Living Room, your host Jeremy Springsteed will warm up our minds for the circle with a free association word game. Bring something to write with and on. Speaking of free association: Have you purchased your pass to the Cascadia Poetry Festival yet?...
