by Ryukan | Jan 23, 2012 | Blog
Tree Swenson is new Executive Director at Richard Hugo House A letter from John Burgess, RHH Board President Hello, I have exciting news to share with you. Richard Hugo House has hired a new Executive Director—Tree Swenson. Tree brings to Hugo House an incredible...
by Ryukan | Jan 23, 2012 | Blog
Nadine a Maestas“Emerge this is not yet thinking” —from Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments In this Living Room session, Nadine Maestas would like us to consider the concept of writing poems that are derived from experimental procedures. Examples will include the...
by Ryukan | Jan 19, 2012 | Blog
It was a phrase used by C.A. Conrad when he visited Seattle and did a reading at SPLAB. He said he loved being part of our City of Poets. Our current Board President, Eze Anamalechi likes the idea of a Poetic Commons. Another Board Member, Joe Chiveney, suggests we...
by Ryukan | Jan 10, 2012 | Blog
For Walt Whitman, body-consciousness seemed to propel the poet beyond anything as simple as “interest” in the physiological processes of the body in health. The 1855 versions of “Song of Myself,” “The Sleepers,” and “I Sing...
