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Paul @ Bradner Gardens with Jim O’Halloran

Paul @ Bradner Gardens with Jim O’Halloran

Jim O’Halloran, the flute player and Subud brother with whom I have collaborated for at least sixteen years, wrote this yesterday: I’m delighted to be returning to  Bradner Gardens Park again this year on Saturday, August 9th 6:30-8:30 PM.   The address is 1730...

Eagle Harbor Book Company Canceled

Dear Faithful Blog Reader! The Winter in America (Again reading scheduled for tonight, Friday, July 11, 2025, has been canceled. The tour’s last stop is tomorrow, Saturday, July 12, at 2pm at the Columbia City Gallery, Among the featured poets are three from out...
Poetry Postcards and Zen

Poetry Postcards and Zen

An amazing testimonial for the Poetry Postcard Fest though it was not intended to serve that purpose. It is from Kosho Itagaki of Temple Eishoji (where I sit three days a week.) He writes: 🚤 Standing at the Brink Choosing Not Productivity, but Prayer We live...

Matt Trease Interview The Outside

Matt Trease moved to Seattle, became a postcard poet, has long helped run the Margin Shift reading in Seattle, has been a board member of the Cascadia Poetics Lab for 8 years and is my good friend. All these reasons would be sufficient to interview him about The...
Kosho, Basho, Sam, Michael

Kosho, Basho, Sam, Michael

If you did not know, I participated in the Jukai ceremony on December 11, 2023, under the direction of Kosho Itagaki, at Temple Eishoji in Rainier Beach. I took refuge in the Buddha, the dharma and the sangha and was given the dharma name Koho Ryukan. It may have been...