SIgn up for our weekly newsletter
-
Recent Blog Posts
- A Poet’s Obituary of Diane di Prima
- Priscilla Long Interview
- Diane di Prima R.I.P.
- McClure’s 88th (A Zoom Reading/Tribute)
- Ian Boyden Interview (A Forest of Names)
- A Fly Landed
- The Art of the Blurb
- POPO Birthday Bounty
- COVID-19 Sonnet
- Article on American Sentences
- 9.11.2020 American Sentence
- PEN POPO2020 Afterword (Postcards from the Pandemic)
- Iris Cushing on David Henderson and Mary Norbert Körte
- Prostate Cancer Update
- Poetics as Cosmology
Top Posts or Pages
- Poetics as Cosmology Workshop (Week 5)
- Personal Universe Deck
- Poetics as Cosmology Workshop (Week 4)
- A Poet's Obituary of Diane di Prima
- Notes on The Undercommons
- Diane di Prima R.I.P.
- Red Pine (Bill Porter) Interview
- Priscilla Long Interview
- Organic Poetry
- Diane Di Prima - American Poetry and the Beat Movement from a Female Perspective
Pages
- Names of Thangka Deities or Chinese Dishes
- 2015 Poetry Postcard F.A.Q’s
- 3rd Qinghai Lake Poetry Festival (2011)
- A Time Before Slaughter
- About Paul
- After On Time
- After The Japanese
- Allen Ginsberg Interviewed, June 12, 1994
- American Prophets
- American Sentences
- American Sentences Press Release
- August POetry POstcard Fest 2013 Afterword
- August Poetry Postcard Fest 2014 Afterword
- August Poetry Postcard Fest 2015 Afterword
- August Poetry Postcard Fest 2016 Afterword
- August POetry POstcard Fest 2019 Official Call
- Bio
- Book a Workshop
- CLL
- CV
- Donate
- El Habib Louai in Cascadia
- February (Peace) Postcards
- Footsteps – Call for Poems
- Global Voices Radio Programs 2003
- Graham Isaac on Filthy Jerry’s Guide
- Haibun de la Serna
- Hillman City Haibun
- Home
- Hope’s Edge, The New Diet for a New Planet (Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Lappé)
- How to Write a POstcard POem (Ten Steps)
- Human Universe (Charles Olson)
- Interview on The Cultural Creatives
- Interviews
- Bhagavan Das – A Suburban Californian’s Quest to India
- Community Self-Reliance
- Diane Di Prima – American Poetry and the Beat Movement from a Female Perspective
- Eric Drooker – The Graphic Novel Art Form
- Evolution of Philosophy
- Father Matthew Fox – The Reinvention of Work
- George Stanley After Desire and Vancouver: A Poem
- Gloria DeGaetano – The Source of Teen Violence & Training Parent Coaches as Catalysts for Social Evolution
- Jean Houston – Our Time of Whole System Transition
- Jerry Wennstrom & Marilyn Strong – The Union of Opposites: Alchemical Imagery as a Tool
- John Olson – The Craft of Writing & the Role of Writing In a Civil Society
- Larry Dossey, MD – Non-Local Mind and the New Era in Medicine
- Laura Simms – Storytelling as Healing Modality
- Leslie Korn, Ph.D – Integrating Traditional and Modern Medicine
- Rupert Sheldrake Ph.D – The Scientific Basis for Understanding Animal Telepathy
- Sam Hamill – The Translation & Publishing Work of Copper Canyon Press
- Shahar Bram – The Sentience of Stones
- The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response
- The History of Evolution
- Wanda Coleman – Writing as Feedback System to Aid Individuation
- Intro to Kozer Variations
- Introduction to Footsteps
- It’s About Time Craft Talk Notes
- James O’Dea (IoNS and the Science of Consciousness)
- John Oliver Simon on Charles Potts
- Literary Paradigm Shift at a Glance (with props to Matthew Fox)
- Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia
- McClure’s Mephistos
- Nate Mackey
- Organic Poetry
- Along the Rim
- Amalio Madueno’s Response to Hell
- Changing a Culture (A Look at Cultural Modernism and Free Market Verse)
- Crafting the Organic: George Bowering’s Kerrisdale Elegies
- Cuba Pictorial Essay, February – March, 2005
- Dec 9, 2006: Robin Blaser Book Launch
- Dualism and Olson’s Antidote
- Evolving the Organic: The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
- Innovative Northwest Poets
- Inside Dolphin Skull: Michael McClure
- Intro to Reissue of McClure’s Specks
- Introduction to Organic Poetry
- Lesley University Masters Study Plan
- Notes on Anuncio’s Last Love Song (Nate Mackey)
- Notes on the Ambassador from Venus (Robert Duncan)
- Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies
- Organic Manifesto
- Organic Poetry
- Organic Poetry Essays
- Pacific Rim Poetics
- Paul Nelson Rain Taxi Interview (Greg Bem)
- PN Semester 3 Annotated Bibliography
- Projective Verse (Charles Olson, 1950)
- Response to McClure’s “Mysteriosos”
- Robin Blaser Interview: Tracking the Fire
- Saturation Job (Charles Olson)
- Some Notes on Organic Form (Denise Levertov, 1965)
- Summary of Program Work
- The Meat Lab of Michael McClure: Mysteriosos and Other Poems
- The Oosumich of Open Form: Writing as Vision Quest
- The Sound of the Field (Olson)
- Walt Whitman: Poet of Parturition
- What is Consciousness?
- What is Open Form Poetry
- Why Poetry Matters: Sam Hamill Interview
- Writing or Re-Writing
- Writing out of Hell: The Practice of William Carlos Williams and the Opening of the Field
- Paul E Nelson Resume
- Pig War
- Poetics as Cosmology Workshop (Week 1)
- Poetics as Cosmology Workshop (Week 2)
- Poetics as Cosmology Workshop (Week 3)
- Poetics as Cosmology Workshop (Week 4)
- Poetics as Cosmology Workshop (Week 5)
- PoPo (aka August POetry POstcard Fest)
- Postcard Poems as Peace Process
- Postcards & Other Spontaneous Methods
- Qinghai Sound Report
- Qinghai Sunflowers
- Sam Keen – Learning To Fly (1999 Interview)
- SPLAB
- Testimonials
- The Art of the Interview
- The Father of Cascadia (Interview)
- The Life Forces with Solihin & Alicia Thom
- The Long Walk
- The Tao of Postcards
- Willie Smith
- Workshops
- American Sentences Workshop Handout
- Berrigan Sonnet Collage Exercise
- Cover Poem (Rewrite, new Arrangement)
- Duo Corpse Exercise
- Erasure Workshop Handout
- Haibun Exercise
- History in Verse
- Pacific Rim Poetics (12.4.10 Write-O-Rama Handout)
- Personal Mythology of Organic Poetry Workshop (Nainamo, June 11,2013)
- Personal Universe Deck
- Phrase Acrostic Workshop Handout
- Poetry Postcard Exercise
- Tribe Exercise
- Wanda Coleman-American Sonnets
- Workshop Exercises
- Writing Classes for Teachers Evaluations
- Writing or Rewriting
- Yusef Komunyakaa
Archived Posts
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- October 2009
Tag Archives: Richard Brautigan
Death Rattle, WA 129, Postcards, Cascadia Po Fest
It used to be that the summer in Seattle had very little in the way of literary arts events. When Labor Day weekend came around, poets got caught up at Bumbershoot at the Bookfair and the Sunday night Red Sky … Continue reading
Posted in POPO Tagged 56 days of August, Allen Braden, American Sentences, Bruce Weigl, Bumbershoot, CA Conrad, Creative Colloquy, Death Rattle Writer's Festival Nampa Idaho, Eugenia Hepworth Petty, Ianthe Brautigan, Ina Roy-Faderman, Joanna Thomas, Laura Gamache, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Martha Silano, Merna Hecht, Michael McClure, Nancy Pagh, Patricia Smith, Puget Sound Poetry Connection, Red Sky Poetry Theater, Richard Brautigan, Sage Hill Poetry, Shankar Narayan, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Tallie Jones, Tod Marshall, Vashon Bookshop 2 Comments
Death Rattle, Postcard Panel, IndieGoGo Request
Some events of note for those interested in my work: Monday, October 2, 2017, I have been invited to read for the Striped Water Poets in Auburn, Washington at the Rainbow Cafe, 7pm, 112 E. Main Street. Bill Yake will … Continue reading
Posted in POPO Tagged 56 days of August, Abby Murray, Bill Yake, Bruce Weigl, CA Conrad, Dale King, Death Rattle, Death Rattle Writer's Festival. Quenton Baker, Doug Johnson, Gary Copeland Lilley, Ianthe Brautigan-Swensen, Ina Roy, Janet Holmes, Joanna Thomas and Eugenia Hepworth Petty, Judy Kleinberg, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Michael McClure, Nadine Maestas, Nancy Pagh, Patricia Smith, Philip Red Eagle, Puget Sound Poetry Connection, Richard Brautigan, Tallie Jones, WA Poet Laureate Tod Marshall Leave a comment
Important Dates
Summer is supposed to be a lazy time with a lot of loafing, picnics, softball, kayak rides and other ways in which — as George Gershwin put it – “the livin’ is easy.” Throw in year 11 of a poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Bruce Weigl, CA Conrad, Dan Kirk, Death Rattle Writer's Festival, Ed Varney, Ianthe Brautigan, Ina Roy-Faderman, Indrani Sengupta, Jan Zwicky, Jayy Dodd, Judy Kleinberg, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Matt Rader, Michael McClure, Patricia Smith, Philip Red Eagle, Quenton Baker, Rachael Jensen, Richard Brautigan, Sarah de Leeuw, Serena Chopra, Sharon Thesen, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, SICA, Stephen Collis, Tod Marshall Leave a comment