by Ryukan | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
This is Just a reminder for all those interested in joining the August Poetry Postcard Project this year, the cut-off date is July 25. So if you want to join the list for this year, please contact me before that if you have not already done so. Thanks Brendan McBreen...
by Ryukan | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
TCR’s 2nd annual Robin Blaser Poetry Award Deadline: August 1 The contest’s judges, Miriam Nichols and Sharon Thesen, have provided a thematic statement for this year’s contest: Throughout his writing life, Robin Blaser repeatedly turned to the sacred as a...
by Ryukan | Jul 6, 2012 | Blog
From Scot Brannon (scot at scot brannon dot net): Poetilla Want to spend a couple of hours on Lake Union in the company of savvy writers? Looking for intelligent critique of your work—whether poetry, fiction or something in between? Join the Poetilla, a writers’...
by Ryukan | Jun 30, 2012 | Blog
From Brendan McBreen: for those of you familiar with the August Poetry Postcard series you may know that it was started by Paul Nelson then passed to Lana Ayers but this year Lana is busy with school work (fiction writing) and other projects so I have been asked to...
by Ryukan | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog
Mickey O’Connor and Nico Vassilakis read in the first SPLAB matinee reading, Saturday, September 17 at 3:30. Here’s is the unedited audio from Mickey O, who read from Pushkin’s Umbrella, among other works. Here is the unedited audio from Nico V. Here...
by Ryukan | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog
Andrew Schelling is a poet, translator and longtime teacher at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, part of Naropa University, as well as the Deer Park Institute in India. In July, 2011, he talked with Paul Nelson about his new book:...
by Ryukan | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog
In town for a celebration of an exhibition by feminist artist Carolee Schneemann, Dodie Bellamy read from The Buddhist at the Henry Art Gallery on October 20th, 2011 and an excerpt was featured on SPLAB Presents for the week of October 31, 2011. Her whole...
by Ryukan | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog
Brenda Hillman finished off the SPLAB 2011 Visiting Poets Series in fine fashion November 11 and 12 with a brilliant talk on Innovation and Activism in Poetry Friday the 11th (Veterans Day), a workshop that left at least one participant “buzzing all day”...
by Ryukan | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog
On September 24th 2011, poets gathered (at SPLAB) & in 450 cities around the world in an event called 100 Thousand Poets for Change. The event is designed to change how we see global community and work to cure symptoms of a world that, in Gary Snyder’s words, is...
by Ryukan | Jun 25, 2012 | Blog
As I prepare to make one last presentation at one last Living Room in Columbia City, I am taking a moment to look back and consider all the great things that happened in our three year run here. My wife Meredith and I planned to relocate to Seattle as soon as my...
by Ryukan | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog
We’re down to two last Living Room writer’s critique circle sessions in Columbia City. Early returns on the outreach we’re doing suggests that, while the current SPLAB is a lovely and intimate space, it is out of the way for most people who would...
by Ryukan | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
LES MORELY & RAVEN CHRONICLES PRESENT: RED SKY REDUX AT HOPVINE PUB (formerly known as the 5-0 Tavern). June 24, Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Readers: Marion Kimes, Willie Smith, Martha Linehan, Doug Nufer. Music: Wally Shoup. + Open Mic. Hopvine, 507 15th Ave. East, Capitol...
by Ryukan | Jun 5, 2012 | Blog
Bring your digital camera or smartphone w/camera to this Living Room! Your host Meredith Nelson is going to take you on a little meander inside and out and we’re going to do a writing exercise from what we discover. Regular critique circle follows. Writers of...
by Ryukan | Jun 5, 2012 | Blog
Greg Bem passed along Amy Billharz video of the June 3, 2012, Ginsberg Marathon sunrise Howl reading, or at least a montage from that drunken, bleary-eyed Cuban cigar smoke-filled morning: www.vimeo.com/43453437 AG Marathon photos here. And thanks to Rodney Herold, I...
by Ryukan | Jun 4, 2012 | Blog
From Eileen Walsh Duncan: Hello Paul, Tony Pfannensteil, a Portland poet, founded Fault Lines Poetry Journal and placed a call for submissions in fall 2011. I and many other poets along the Cacasdia Fault Line were intrigued by the energy and passion in his vision for...
