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McClure Workshop & Public Reading Today!

The 30+ people who attended last night’s lecture with Michael McClure have already gotten a taste of how remarkable this renowned poet is. YOU still have a chance to experience it. There are a few spots left in today’s workshop, that runs from 1pm to 4pm...

Michael McClure

March 12-13, 2010 Rainier Valley Cultural Center 3515 S. Alaska St, Seattle, WA (map) 1-4P Saturday Workshop, 7:30P Saturday reading, and 7:30P Friday lecture with the renowned poet. Space is limited for the Saturday, March 13 workshop. Michael McClure is a poet,...

Living Room Tuesday Night 3.9.10

This Tuesday at 7 in the SPLAB Living Room, Facilitator Paul Nelson will read more from Dear Being, a poem in Michael McClure’s upcoming book Mysteriosos & Other Poems. You are encouraged to read new work for a gentle critique, read someone else’s...

McClure’s Lecture and Workshop Description

The description of Michael McClure’s lecture and workshop is now available. The lecture will be Friday night, March 12, 2010, in the Rainier Valley Cultural Center, downstairs, and is: Poetry. Imagination. Inspiration. The Facets of Projective Verse The secrets...

Volunteers for McClure Weekend Needed

Hey Poetry Fan, SPLAB needs volunteers to cover the door and help out with set-up on Friday, March 12th at 7P, Saturday the 13th from 12:30 to 4:30 and then that evening again at 7P. All events are at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center, quite accessible from the LINK...

Writing Classes for Teachers Wednesday, March 17, 5-7 p.m.

ORGANIC POETRY WITH PAUL NELSON Is the universe a machine based on competition, or an organism based on process, interdependence and relationship? Organic Poetry, a stance toward poem making dubbed by Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, allows the moment of composition...

March Small Press Month Readings

From Nico V: POETRY in MARCH @ Pilot Bookstore www.pilotbooksseattle.com 6:00pm – 6:15pm, longer where noted * free 3/2 – Matthew Zapruder (7pm – CA Conrad) 3/3 – Chelsea Martin 3/4 – Joshua Beckman 3/5 – Crystal Curry (7pm – Tom...

McClure Books

Good news from Open Books: Dear Paul y SPLAB, Good news today on the McClure book front. Our rep sent e-mail confirming we will have thirty copies of Mysteriosos to sell at the reading. I’m not sure when we’ll be getting them– sometime twixt now and...

McClure Sponsors

We are delighted to have the following co-sponsors of Michael McClure’s upcoming visit to Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood: Poets & Writers, Dark Coast Press,  the State Commission on Humanities, Augusto Romano, L.Ac, KBCS-FM, Wabi Sabi restaurant...

Steven Fama on McClure

On Feb 1, Steven Fama created an on-line homage to SPLAB’s upcoming visiting poet. If there is a more accurate, spirited and beautiful summation of Michael McClure’s poetry on the web, I haven’t seen it. Spanning McClure’s entire career, from...

Kage-an Artist Retreat Center

After 35 years in Port Townsend, Sam Hamill is closing a chapter in his life and beginning another. The home, studio and library, he created in the woods near Port Townsend, Washington in the late 1970’s is being made available for sale and our vision is to create a...

SPLAB Living Room is back, baby!

That’s right, folks. SPLAB Living Room officially resumed two weeks ago after a long winter’s nap. You haven’t been there? Bummer! You missed hearing new poems from Amalio Madueno, as well as a sneak peek into poems from Michael McClure’s...