by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2011 | 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 | Nov 21, 2011 | Blog
I got this from SIFF today: “*Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.” —**Hayden...
by Ryukan | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
As Thanksgiving approaches school children learn the story of pilgrims, Plymouth rock, helpful natives and thanks. As those children grow older they realize that the way the pilgrims gave thanks was genocide. That kind of ruins the story. Using examples such as...
by Ryukan | Nov 15, 2011 | Blog
from Phoebe Bosche’s I-Phone: Begin forwarded message: From: Calls for Poets Submissions <cfp.literature.univ.edu@gmail.com> Date: November 15, 2011 7:44:32 AM PST To: Call for Poets Submissions <cfp.english.univ.edu@gmail.com> Subject: Invitation to...
by Ryukan | Nov 14, 2011 | Blog
From Greg Bem: Hello everyone, My old school, Roger Williams University, recently underwent a shift in the Creative Writing department. The nationally-distributed literary magazine, which was called originally called roger, is now called Mount Hope. Anyway, I just met...
by Ryukan | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
The Cascadia Poetry Festival (March 23-25, 2012, at SPLAB) seeks to examine the culture of this region by gathering poets from the California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, the Alaska panhandle and Western Montana at SPLAB, in the most diverse zip code...
by Ryukan | Nov 12, 2011 | Blog
From Alex Bleecker: we’re so excited – we mean last breadline of 2012 – next wed! we’re featuring the indomitable poetry of doug nufer, the storytelling skills of auntmama & friends, and the electro-poetic oddity that is queequeg (daniel...
by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog
Ted Berrigan (Nov. 15, 1934-July 4, 1983) was a master practitioner of a multiplicity of strategies for making poems, among them appropriation, collage, collaboration, misreadings and mistranslations, found poetry, and list poems. In his mix of voices and sources he...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula —from “Ursonate” by Kurt Schwitters One thing that seems to distinguish poems from prose is sound. I hope for us to consider the relationship of primal sound to the...
by Ryukan | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
From Spankstra Press: Do you remember Scooby-Doo? Well, this announcement has nothing to do with that. Do you remember SPREAD: The Monthly Journal of Poetry? It was a free poetry zine passed out around Seattle from October 2000 to July 2003. It featured the works of...
by Ryukan | Oct 30, 2011 | Blog
I am grateful to Philip Brautigam for his amazing and generous work on my website redesign. See it here: www.PaulENelson.com. He has become a WordPress expert and I love the user friendly nature of the design. I’ll be migrating American Sentences and Organic...
by Ryukan | Oct 28, 2011 | Blog
Seattle’s own Wave Books presents its 2nd annual 3 Days of Poetry festival. This year the festival will celebrate POETRY IN TRANSLATION, November 4th through 6th, in association with the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, featuring readings in...
by Ryukan | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog
The Uncanny It’s alive! Or is it? Genre writers know how to make your skin crawl. A favorite item in their toolkit: The uncanny. I don’t just mean something spooky. I mean something that seems familiar but also strange. Think of the pod people from Invasion of the...
by Ryukan | Oct 21, 2011 | Blog
Have you had an absurd or incomprehensible dream lately? Rich subconscious secrets and great poems cleverly hide behind and between dream images. Often the more absurd the inviting dream and its connections are, the more rich meaning resides. It is our linear mind...
by Ryukan | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
From Jeanne Heuving: Do come, reserve tickets with Henry (or take your chances), and forward this announcement: The Henry Art Gallery, UW Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, and Writing For Their Lives presents: DODIE BELLAMY, KEVIN KILLIAN, CARLA HARRYMAN,...
