Wednesday, April 13 @ 7 pm
Progressive Pitch: An Introduction to the Recorded Word @ SPLAB, 3651 S. Edmunds.
Come with a poem to read aloud. Take home a high quality, digital recording of your work & a better understanding of how to manipulate & manage audio files.
Featuring a lesson from our host, Paul Nelson.” Special emphasis on performance poetry. FREE but RSVP required. Part of the Second Annual Seattle Small Press Festival. Co-sponsored by Pilot Books.
It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to bed with you before turning the lights out. It’s also been described as “protest beauty” and is the collaboration of a printer (really, a book artist) and a poet, who’ve created “a full...
What end does politics serve? Surely it must serve ends beyond itself. Why seek greater bioregional autonomy? For self-determination. Yes, but what purpose in turn shall that value serve? None some may say, it’s self-justifying. But then it becomes an absolute unto itself which can be used to justify many different things, some questionable. Why not come right out at the beginning and say what you’re really for?
The primary purpose of seeking greater bioregional identity and autonomy is to serve the life of the place and its people as a whole. Indeed, the primary purpose of Politics is to serve the life of the place and its people on many levels in an equitable and sustainable way.
AWP Off-Site readings with Seattle Poets
Hi Paul,
Methinks,this audio practice would help me prepare for the Folklife event with Splab.I rsvp’d the Pilot folks. So maybe I will see you soon.
Blackbird