by Ryukan | Jul 3, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It happened! As the Poetry Postcard Fest begins, the universe has bestowed me with a gift. The winter ‘97 issue of The Kenyon Review, produced from an unlabeled cardboard box of mostly chewed up cookbooks on a walk with my partner and my dog, just for me to cut up and...
by Ryukan | Jun 29, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Poetry Postcard Fest
In 2017 the great Zen poet Norman Fischer had this Facebook post: Poems are not necessarily supposed to do you any good. People think that poems have some meaning embedded in them and that the meaning can do you some good. But I think it’s the opposite: if poems do...
by Ryukan | Oct 24, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, Events
Self-described Cascadian poet Sharon Thesen will give the annual Charles Olson lecture Saturday, October 29 at 1pm EDT, 10am PDT at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and it will be streamed. Details: Author Sharon Thesen will give this year’s annual...
by Ryukan | Apr 21, 2021 | Blog
I am asking your support for SPLAB during Give Big and contributions are being accepted now. https://www.givebigwa.org/Splab Between July 2020 and last week I have been working my ass off with the guidance of 501 Commons and specifically two of their representatives,...
by Ryukan | Jul 15, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The recording of the July 11 webinar on Best Poetry Postcard Practices is now online. The Co-Editors of the 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards Anthology (Ina Roy-Faderman, Judy Kleinberg, Paul E Nelson) shared their tips on how they write postcard poems and answered...
