by Ryukan | Feb 23, 2019 | Blog
A book to honor Sam Hamill will be launched at the Cascadia Poetry Festival in Anacortes, May 9-12, 2019. Ian Boyden christened it the Samthology and an IndieGoGo campaign has begun to raise the funds to produce the book and support the festival. You can contribute...
by Ryukan | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog
It was a theme back in the mid-90s for SPLAB to counter-program the Super Bowl. We got great press for our annual Super Bowl of Poetry (see below) because journalists liked writing the predictable story about how silly poets were NOT going to watch the game EVERYONE...
by Ryukan | Jan 27, 2019 | Blog
Dear SPLAB-Fan, I have several events at which I will be promoting American Prophets and I hope to see you at one or two. The first is on Super Bowl Sunday! Good news is that it is BEFORE kickoff, if you are a football fan and think the Patriots will not be cheating....
by Ryukan | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog
Make It True meets Medusario is a bilingual anthology was spawned by two previous anthologies and combined into one to initiate a dialog between Spanish language poets of the neo-barroco school, as organized by José Kozer and poets from the Cascadia bioregion, as...
by Ryukan | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog
Thanks to Greg Bem and Buffy Sedlachek, there is video of the SPLAB 25th anniversary party at the White River Valley Museum in Auburn, on December 14, 2018, the exact 25th anniversary of the founding of the organization now known as SPLAB. The video is a little rocky...
by Ryukan | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
I am delighted to be celebrating the release of American Prophets by way of doing interview workshops in and around Cascadia for the next few months. A workshop happens at Open Books: A Poem Emporium, March 10, 2019, 10:00 am – noon. Preregistration is...
by Ryukan | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPLAB TO CELEBRATE 25th ANNIVERSARY DECEMBER 14 IN AUBURN WASHINGTON Public Reading & Book Release to take place at White River Valley Museum Seattle, WA, October 23, 2018—Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented...
by Ryukan | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog
SPLAB is honored to participate in a Worldwide Reading for Freedom of the Press and in Memory of Jamal Khashoggi on the 70th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 2018. Those who care to read work addressing this issue are welcome to participate...
by Ryukan | Sep 4, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Here are two short videos of the postcards I received during the 12th Poetry Postcard Fest. #APPF12. These cards were the ones I received by September 4, 2018. 50 as of mail delivery time today. I am humbled and honored at how this fest has evolved. To folks like Judy...
by Ryukan | Sep 2, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I did not get a chance to write about my experience with the 12th Poetry Postcard Fest yesterday as I was leaving Ian, Jennifer and Gavia Boyden and their home on San Juan Island with my daughter Ella. We had been there to help Ian celebrate his NEA award to translate...
by Ryukan | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog
Thank you Koldo Barroso for the fantastic 25th Anniversary SPLAB bookmarks. We hope to see you 7:30pm, December 14, 2018 at the White River Valley Museum at 918 H Street S.E., in Auburn, Washington, the former Slaughter.
by Ryukan | Aug 14, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Bhakti and I got back from an overnight sojourn to THE MULTIVERSE on San Juan Island yesterday. We went to the community/arts spot Ian, Jennifer and Gavia Boyden have created to showcase art and were delighted to be serenaded by original keyboard music while watching...
by Ryukan | Aug 14, 2018 | Blog
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE Northwest Broadcaster and Poet Paul Nelson Donates Historic Radio Programming Archive to Auburn’s White River Valley Museum AUBURN WA: With a grant from 4Culture, onetime Auburn resident, disc jockey, poet and intellectual Paul Nelson...
by Ryukan | Jul 24, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
293 people are registered for the 12th Poetry Postcard Fest in 2018. Included are participants from Alberta (1), Alabama (9), Arkansas (1), Arizona (1), British Columbia (1), California (26), Colorado (5), Connecticut (3), Florida (1), Georgia (2), Hawaii (1), Idaho...
by Ryukan | Jul 20, 2018 | Blog
Though he may not have been excited about the notion of a Javanese ritual event centered around his life, there will be a slametan for Sam Hamill, Monday, July 23, at the Wedgwood Ale House. From Wikipedia: The ceremony takes its name from the Javanese word slamet,...
