by Ryukan | Apr 19, 2019 | Blog
Give BIG is coming! Save the date for early giving! Give Big is Wednesday May 8th, but you can schedule your gift early starting Tuesday April 23rd! By scheduling your gift early, it’s easy to donate and you’ll give SPLAB some momentum for this once-a-year...
by Ryukan | Apr 14, 2019 | Blog
Thanks to Ian Boyden’s cover design and Cate Gable’s marvelous introduction and Lyn Coffin’s expert proof-reading and to many contributors writing homages in French, Spanish and English, the Samthology will be launched at the Cascadia Poetry...
by Ryukan | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog
Oh yeah, April is National Poetry Month, I almost forgot. For those who live lives dedicated to poetry, it’s more like the month when people besides poets pay attention to the art of the written and spoken word. That being said, in addition to the events in the...
by Ryukan | Mar 30, 2019 | Blog
SPLAB is delighted to be off-site for AWP at a Northwest Micropress Fair at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, 403 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR, Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 10am–6pm. From Entre Rios Books, the organizer: Meet the many of the smallest, newest, and best...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2019 | Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CASCADIA POETRY FESTIVAL REGISTRATION OPEN May 9-12, 2019, Anacortes, A Tribute to Sam Hamill Seattle, WA, March 13, 2019—The Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented non-profit organization, has opened registration for the Cascadia...
by Ryukan | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog
The 7th Cascadia Poetry Festival is postponed. The iteration planned for April 30-May 2, 2021 at the Multiverse on San Juan Island was cancelled due to Covid-19. The main page for the 2021 fest was: http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/cpf-sji-2021/ 85 year old Beat Nun...
by Ryukan | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog
The early bird gets the worm and the first 45 to register for a Cascadia Poetry Festival Gold Pass gets a free workshop the Sunday morning of the fest. Two SPLAB volunteers have teamed up for an original Cascadia experience and other workshops are being facilitated by...
by Ryukan | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog
Gold Passes for Cascadia Poetry Festival Anacortes 2019 are now available through Brown Paper Tickets. See: https://cpfanacortes.brownpapertickets.com/ See the 2019 schedule here: http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/cpf-anacortes-2019/ In addition to a tribute to Sam...
by Ryukan | Mar 3, 2019 | Blog
SPLAB is delighted to be at AWP in Portland and not have to attend it! From the Entre Rios Books Facebook event: Meet the many of the smallest, newest, and best literary presses, magazines, and producers in the Northwest. This one-day AWP-offsite event showcases the...
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...
