by Ryukan | Sep 17, 2011 | Blog
Mickey O’Connor and Nico Vassilakis read in the first SPLAB matinee reading, Saturday, Sept 17 at 3:30. Here’s is the unedited audio from Mickey O, who read from Pushkin’s Umbrella, among other works. Here’s unedited audio from Nico V....
by Ryukan | Sep 17, 2011 | Blog
Thanks to the Wily Almondina and Victor Pascual (of Digital Navajo) the new SPLAB bookmark is here:
by Ryukan | Sep 12, 2011 | Blog
On September 24th, poets will gather (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 | Sep 12, 2011 | Blog
Join facilitator Anthony Warnke as he welcomes Verna Press poet David Rowe to the Living Room. David will talk about his work and read some poems and then there will be time for you to debut something new and get intelligent feedback. 7P Tuesday, September 20 @ SPLAB....
by Ryukan | Sep 10, 2011 | Blog
In the 1880’s Nietzsche declared, God is Dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Atheists would argue God was never alive to begin with. Religious fundamentalists disagree. But for the large majority of us – Agnostics, freethinkers, lapsed…whatevers –...
by Ryukan | Sep 5, 2011 | Blog
From Qinghai Lake to Tongren, Xi’an and Beijing, Sounds of China In August, 2010, I received my invitation to the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival and a year later arrived in China with my wife Meredith on August 6, 2011. We spent a night in Beijing and...
by Ryukan | Aug 29, 2011 | Events
Greetings, If you didn’t know already, and if you haven’t sent work already, well, PageBoy Magazine is currently gathering material for its upcoming issue. We are looking for poetry and prose and. Essays and artwork and. Fakes and masterpieces so long...
by Ryukan | Aug 28, 2011 | Blog
Every step once taken in the first advance of the human race, from the amoeba to the highest type of intelligence, has been duplicated, every step exactly paralleling the one that preceded in the dead ages gone by. A perfect plagiarism results.Everything is and is...
by Ryukan | Aug 26, 2011 | Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michael Rothenberg, Founder 100 Thousand Poets for Change P.O. Box 870 Guerneville, Ca 95446 Phone: 305-753-4569 http://www.100TPC.org walterblue@bigbridge.org Poets Worldwide Unite for the Truly Historic “100 Thousand Poets for...
by Ryukan | Aug 24, 2011 | Events
Nico Vassilakis has been active in Seattle’s literary community for 20 years. His recent work includes co-editing The Last Vispo: Visual Poetry Anthology 1998-2008 forthcoming from Fantagraphics Books in Fall 2012. Mickey O’Connor is the author of three...
by Ryukan | Aug 21, 2011 | Blog
(From Greg Bem) On Thursday, September 1st, we are hosting a large-scale group reading and performance at the event space Sole Repair on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The event will feature 22 writers of different backgrounds and disciplines, as well as a host of local...
by Ryukan | Aug 18, 2011 | Blog
Talk, Friday, November 11, 7:30P at SPLAB Workshop, Saturday, November 12, 1-4P @ SPLAB Reading Saturday, Nov 12 at 7:30P @ SPLAB Across Categories: The Personal-Political- Innovative-Eco-Expressive Poem (November 12, 2011 Brenda Hillman SPLAB Workshop) Participants...
by Ryukan | Aug 17, 2011 | Blog
George Bowering is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. The author of more than 90 books, Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they...
by Ryukan | Aug 14, 2011 | Blog
On August 5 Meredith and I left for Beijing and after a one-night stop there, we were dropped in to an international “City of Poets” to use C.A. Conrad’s phrase. This was in Xining at the Qinghai Hotel. All my expenses were covered and Meredith only...
by Ryukan | Aug 1, 2011 | Blog
WHAT: WAR OF READING – The World Books of Louis CABRI, Donato MANCINI & Robert MITTENTHAL WHERE: SPokenword LAB (SPLAB) – 3651 S Edmunds in Columbia City, just west of Rainier, one block south of Alaska....
