by Ryukan | Jun 25, 2012 | Blog
As I prepare to make one last presentation at one last Living Room in Columbia City, I am taking a moment to look back and consider all the great things that happened in our three year run here. My wife Meredith and I planned to relocate to Seattle as soon as my...
by Ryukan | May 11, 2012 | Blog
Paranomasia has nothing to do with a lack of ghosts. Rather, it comes from Greek, meaning word-shunting, and refers to the deliberate exploitation of words to achieve multiple meanings, ambiguities, humor, etc. (i.e., punning; i.e. cummings) — a way of...
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 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 | 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...
