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...
by Ryukan | Apr 19, 2014 | Blog
Joanne Kyger is one of the headliners at the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival. Because of her involvement in the Spicer Circle/San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s, which included poets like Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser and George Stanley (also headlining Cascadia...
by Ryukan | Mar 16, 2014 | Blog
When touting Seattle’s status as a literary town, inevitably Open Books is noted, one of (now) three all poetry bookstores in the US of A. And sometimes those who note it have actually been there and John Marshall and Christine Deavel know and remember. Asked...
by Ryukan | Jun 9, 2013 | Blog
Bless Jack Remick for doing what I did not have the energy to do after SPLAB’s 12th Ginsberg Marathon. It happened June 1 and 2, 2013, at Spring Street Center, which is also the Seattle Subud House. (This is important as it was pointed out during the Marathon by...