by Splabman | 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 Splabman | Jun 5, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
On Sunday June 4, 2023, we held a Postcard Fest Zoom Open House. We had 25 attendees and we introduced the new Poetry Postcard Fest Project Board: Ina Roy-Faderman, Sally Hedges-Blanquez, Judy Kleinberg and Zach Charles. Margaret Lee is also on the board but did not...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 23, 2021 | Books
What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the...
by Splabman | Jun 30, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A quick note that registration for Poetry Postcard Fest 2020 ends July 18. (SIGN UP HERE!) As your Poetry Postcard Fest team works to make the fest more diverse and more popular, we’d love to tap into the GLOBAL Poetry Postcard Fest BRAIN for a moment. The art...
by Splabman | Sep 1, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It seems rather overwhelming to summarize my experience as a participant of the 13th August Poetry Postcard Fest which longtime participant Terry Holzman a few years ago nicknamed PoPo and an anthology in 2017 called the “56 Days of August.” Yet here I am,...
