by Ryukan | Feb 6, 2011 | Blog
Who do you live for? Who do you work for? Who do you love for? Who would you die for? Who is your art for? In this week’s Living Room the focus will be on audience and readership. As a writer you might spend most of the time satisfying your muse, your inner...
by Ryukan | Feb 5, 2011 | Blog
SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a Friday night talk at the NW African-American...
by Ryukan | Feb 3, 2011 | Events
The SPLAB Word Orchestra, a multi-voice poetry performance group will be performing at this year’s Folk Life Festival. This year’s performance will be a multilingual, cross generational, multicultural effort around the festival’s theme “telling...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2011 | Events
“Represent! 98118!” is a community arts project seeking to document “A Day in the Life of America’s Most Diverse Zip Code.” From midnight to midnight, on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, poets and photographers, amateurs and professionals will make a record of life in...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2011 | Events
PROSE POETRY WORKSHOP @ SPLAB Saturday, February 19 12N to 3P Prose poetry has a long-established tradition in France, with Aloysius Bertrand, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. In this workshop, we’ll explore five distinct approaches to writing prose poetry, & will include...