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Phrasings 2013 Call for Writers – Due December 8, 2012

Call for Writers: Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater and the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company announce the 2013 Phrasings Collaboration for Writers & Dancers Deadline: It must be received on or before Saturday, December 8th , 2013. Follow the instructions given...

CE Putnam Back in Cascadia!

One of the most inventive NW poets lives in Singapore these days, but is coming back to the NW. (Details in his email pasted in below). C.E. Putnam was born in Seattle and has lived in three world capitals (London, Washington DC, and Bangkok). A former co-curator of...

SPLAB Moves Admin Office

Yesterday SPLAB moved one door east, to new corporate offices in the smaller home that Meredith, Ella and I share. While SPLAB is working on a major project associated with the Cascadia Poetry Festival, we were told the house we were renting would be going up for sale...

Cascadia Poetry Festival Advisory Board

If you are wondering what SPLAB has been up to lately, we’re scaling back in preparation of something quite huge. In our last season, Sept 2011 to June 2012, we produced 51 events. With the arrival of Ella Roque Nelson, that pace became impossible, so we decided...

The Last Vispo Anthology (G’bye Nico & Crystal)

On Saturday, November 24 at 6:00 PM, there’s a book launch party for “The Last Vispo Anthology,” edited by Nico Vassilakis & Crag Hill. Fantagraphics Bookstore 1201 South Vale Street (Downtown Georgetown) The evening features readings by Crag...

Sam Hamill Poem – To My Muse

Sam Hamill reads from his new chapbook, Border Songs, Saturday, November 10 at 7:30 at Spring Street Center, 15th & Spring in Seattle, a block south of Union. Details here. His friend and collaborator Ian Boyden will display one of the most remarkable books ever...

Summer Residency Opportunity

Summer Residency at the Poetry Center Since 1994, the Poetry Center’s Summer Residency Program has offered poets and prose writers an opportunity to develop their work and to discover all that Tucson has to offer. Two residencies are awarded each summer—one in poetry...

The Four Hoarse Men

Four Hoarse Men Frye 01 Nov Thursday 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Sound Poetry Performance Jason Conger / The Four Hoarse Men / Interrupture / Kjell Hansen Frye Galleries FREE

Out of the Shadows, Women and the Beat Generation

Dear all, Attached is the CFP for the conference Out of the Shadows, Women and the Beat Generation at the University of Agder, Norway, September 2-4, 2013. The conference is organized in collaboration with the European Beat Study Network and welcomes papers in...

427. to Ramon Hildreth, SeaTac, WA – Not Yet Muddy

427. to Ramon Hildreth, SeaTac, WA  – Not Yet Muddy              9.26.12 Medora, ND, Ramon – Loaded w/ egg-salad and roast beast sangwiches,  pass Oink Joint Rd.  &  Peace Pipe Vista  to  a  “Fish Hook & a riddle.”   What life what soul   what consciousness...