by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2019 | Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CASCADIA POETRY FESTIVAL REGISTRATION OPEN May 9-12, 2019, Anacortes, A Tribute to Sam Hamill Seattle, WA, March 13, 2019—The Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented non-profit organization, has opened registration for the Cascadia...
by Ryukan | Jun 7, 2018 | Blog
Some early reviews of Becoming Cascadian are coming in. (See below). I appreciated Andrew Schelling’s notion that you can find bodhisattvas anywhere, his talk about reading Thoreau’s journals, and his feeling that the best tool for bioregionalists is the...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2017 | Blog
Thanks to Ra’anan David, video of the main events from the 5th Cascadia Poetry Festival, held October 12-15, 2017, in Tacoma, are now online: 7:30 Friday Main Stage: Readings featuring scheduled poets: Patricia Smith, Bruce Weigl, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucia...
by Ryukan | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog
Thanks to Dale King and the Puget Sound Poetry Connection, Humanities Washington and Arts WA, and many other sponsors, volunteers, the SPLAB Board, Small Press Fair participants, brilliant poets and inspired attendees, we’re humbled and thrilled by the success...
by Ryukan | Apr 20, 2017 | Blog
SPLAB has been facilitating events since 2012 that combine bioregionalism and poetry. Perhaps the deepest form of eco-poetics is bioregionalism, making the place you live first in your consciousness over a “state” or “nation” or...
