by Ryukan | Feb 7, 2010 | Sponsors
If you have any love for the Southwest, or for Spanglish, or for the Black Mountain School of Poetry, or how a Native American perspective (or should I say Native Mexican) gets assimilated (or doesn’t) into the USAmerican way, you should attend Tuesday...
by Ryukan | Feb 3, 2010 | Sponsors
Contact: Paul Nelson FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel: 206-422-5002 E-mail: pen@splab.org BEAT...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2010 | Sponsors
You can read your own work. To other writers! They listen & tell you what they think! What is better than that? (Besides sex?) Don’t answer, just come to Living Room tonight (Tuesday 2.2.10, Groundhog Night, 7PM) at the Columbia City Cinema, 4816 Rainier AV...
by Ryukan | Jan 27, 2010 | Sponsors
W.S. Merwin & Friends is a benefit reading in support of the nonprofit poetry publisher, Copper Canyon Press at Town Hall. The Thursday, February 4 event at 7PM features W.S. Merwin, who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “The Shadow of Sirius,” as well...
by Ryukan | Jan 20, 2010 | Sponsors
Sorry to report, this, from James Melvin: Sadly, Roberto Valenza passed away yesterday afternoon (Jan 19th) in Spring Hill, FL. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to see him just two weeks before on New Years Eve and to have been able to say goodbye to...
by Ryukan | Jan 18, 2010 | Sponsors
Dear SPLAB-Fan, We’re gearing up for the resumption of Living Room at the Columbia City Cinema on Tuesday, Feb 2 at 7PM. We meet upstairs in the 2nd floor lounge. The address is 4816 Rainier AV S and the suggested donation is $3-$10. Please come to read new...
by Ryukan | Jan 3, 2010 | Sponsors
The Poem Emporium gave A Time Before Slaughter a gracious write-up here: http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000381.html The reading will be Sunday, January 24 at 3P. Open Books is one of two all poetry bookstores in the Unites States. A nexus for Seattle...
by Ryukan | Dec 29, 2009 | Sponsors
Hope you are ready for 2010. While you get ready, & while SPLAB’s writer’s critique circle gets ready to resume on Tuesday, February 2 at 7PM, here are a few items of a mostly literary nature for your perusal: From Phoebe Bosche: For those who...
by Ryukan | Dec 17, 2009 | Sponsors
One of the brightest moments at the old splab, there at 14 S. Division – a molotov cocktail’s throw from city hall – I once liked to say, was the visit of Jerome Rothenberg. The book that was current for him at the time was The Lorca Variations and I...
by Ryukan | Dec 11, 2009 | Sponsors
We know how it is. It’s cold. All you want to do on a Tuesday night is get under a blanket and drink hot tea. Well, let me tell you…It’s warm and toasty in the SPLAB Living Room! Columbia City Cinema’s 2nd floor lounge space is cozy and...
by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2009 | Sponsors
I got to Open Books ten minutes before the reading was scheduled to start. Most of the crowd came after I arrived. John Marshall read a nice introduction and rigged a laptop to an overhead projector, so we could see images on the wall as Hillman read. It was...
by Ryukan | Nov 18, 2009 | Sponsors
Last night’s Living Room, our third edition in our new home, was another satisfying exchange of original work, and one poem from one of the best-known NW poets. Remember, Living Room is a writer’s critique circle happening every Tuesday starting at 7P at...
by Ryukan | Nov 11, 2009 | Sponsors
Sam Hamill’s latest Poets Against War editorial & more… At the recent Seattle Bookfest in our new Columbia City neighborhood, Sam Hamill was speaking about the role of the poet and engaged citizen. Sam believes that poets have more responsibility to call...
by Ryukan | Nov 5, 2009 | Events
Living Room continues every Tuesday night through December 15 at 7PM in the 2nd floor lounge of the Columbia City Cinema. Won’t you consider bringing a copy of some recent writing to share with the gathered for discussion? In the last Living Room, an intimate...
by Ryukan | Oct 28, 2009 | Events
There was a small group for the 1st Living Room in our comfy new space. Maryna Ajaja had an excellent poem entitled Vertigo, based on dream imagery. Her film background is quite an asset for her verse. (She works for SIFF). She read a piece by William Carlos Williams,...
