by Ryukan | Jul 26, 2011 | Events
Join us at SPLAB, Wednesday, September 21st at 7:30 for a reading of one visiting poet (New Orleans) and one recently transplanted poet who has become very active in the local literary scene. Verna Press, in New Orleans is touring the West Coast with the poet David...
by Ryukan | Jul 25, 2011 | Events
Trev Carolan is the editor of Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature. Paul Nelson caught up with him at the Prophouse Cafe in Vancouver to talk about the book. SPLAB Presents for the week of July 25, 2011. The whole interview with Trevor Carolan....
by Ryukan | Jul 16, 2011 | Blog
The August 2011 Postcard Fest Returns! Here’s what’s involved. Sign up here. Get yourself at least 31 postcards. These can be found at book stores, thrift shops, online, drug stores, antique shops, museums, gift shops. (You’ll be amazed at how...
by Ryukan | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog
The Willing Heart- Stories of Love and Laughter Presented by The Seattle Storytelling Guild and SPLAB DATE: Friday, July 22 at 7:00 PM LOCATION: SPLAB 3651 S. Edmunds, Seattle, WA 98118 In the Columbia Cultural Corner (the former Columbia School). Enter from Edmunds....
by Ryukan | Jul 12, 2011 | Events
100 THOUSAND Poets For Change happens at SPLAB September 24, 2011 and around the world. Cedar Sigo is our featured poet at 8P. (Main website here.) Cedar reads at 8P and facilitates a workshop from 3-6P on the San Francisco Renaissance (Joanne Kyger, John Weiners and...
by Ryukan | Jul 11, 2011 | Blog
From Alex Bleecker: yes, this means we’ll be marrying off minors, so if you’ve got one of your own that you’d like to get rid of, bring some dowry money and we’ll take it from there. it also means we’ll be featuring some of the most...
by Ryukan | Jul 7, 2011 | Blog
From Hedgebrook: Hedgebrook is plunging into the 21st century! We are excited to offer an online application process for the 2012 Writers in Residence program. A residency at Hedgebrook offers women writers the opportunity to unplug from their daily lives and immerse...
by Ryukan | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog
A new feature on KBCS,91.3FM Thursday afternoons is SPLAB Presents, featuring segments from interviews Paul Nelson has conducted, or segments of readings he’s recorded. Judith Roche is a Seattle poet and arts educator who is featured on next SPLAB Presents...
by Ryukan | Jul 2, 2011 | Blog
From Kelly Boyker: We are pleased to announce the inaugural launch of Menacing Hedge:Summer 2011 edition. This issue features kick-ass work from Juliet Cook, Christine Hamm, Beth Coyote, Paul Nelson, Chenelle Milford, Meg Pokrass, Nancy Ibsen, Lauren India Henley,...
by Ryukan | Jun 30, 2011 | Events
Hello friends, As they say, I apologize for the mass mail. But I wanted to let you all know that my latest and last [likely] Todd Moore book is finished. As you may recall, he passed away last March while I was working on it. One of the seven final books can be found...
by Ryukan | Jun 28, 2011 | Events
Proudly Present The Poetry of Place: Expressing Your Sense of Place through Poetry with Judith Roche, Followed by a reading featuring Judith Roche and WPA Cascade Authors Saturday July 16, 2011 Workshop 1:00-4:00pm, Reading 4:30 to 6:00pm, Bonair Winery, 500 South...
by Ryukan | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog
The 2nd SPLAB season in Columbia City (and 9th over all) ends on Tuesday, June 28 at 7PM. Your Wily Splabman facilitates and takes you on a poetry postcard journey. This August the annual Poetry Postcard Fest continues. Lana Ayers and I started this in 2007 and more...
by Ryukan | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog
Your Wily Splabman has been getting his grubby hands, voice and ears back into radio again thanks to KBCS.FM, 91.3. Host of the Friday edition of the music/public affairs hybrid The Morning Blend, he’s also been producing SPLAB Presents which has featured, in...
by Ryukan | Jun 7, 2011 | Blog
Nico continues his rich line of inquiry on how visual information is processed: staring@poetics 2011, 5″ x 8″, 56 pgs, Full Color. ISBN 1-936687-03-8 | EAN-13978-1-936687-03-9 $12 To read about the book or purchase a copy –...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog
What do onomatopoeia, scat singing, synethesia, word-as-image, l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e poetry, the Dogon idea of “Mu” (via Nathaniel Mackey) and its connection to Charles Olson’s idea of “pre-utterance,” and ancient occult ideas of “nyama” and...
