by Ryukan | May 7, 2012 | Blog
In what may be their best Seattle project yet, Art Space unveiled their latest plans tonight: Artspace Mt. Baker Station Lofts, Artspace’s third project in Seattle, will be a mixed-use arts facility containing 57 rental units of affordable live/work space for artists...
by Ryukan | May 1, 2012 | Blog
The moving dot can be extinguished in an instant, yet it contains all information, even eternity. Try placing a dot on the undulating waves. The moment I extend my arm, the dot is already gone. —from the essay “In the Oxymoronic World” by Kim Hyesoon, translated...
by Ryukan | May 1, 2012 | Blog
(From Doug Johnson of Cave Moon Press) April 30, 2012 Dear Poet: In 2011 we produced the anthology entitled Broken Circles to benefit hunger. The strategy was simple and it succeeded in helping local food banks from San Francisco to New York. Poets were charged with...
by Ryukan | Apr 24, 2012 | Blog
We’ll celebrate Mayday by working on an ancient Japanese form that’s gained steam since Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder started their experiments in the 50s. We’ll look at Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling’s more contemporary approaches and Sam...
by Ryukan | Apr 17, 2012 | Blog
Text Corpse Exquisite Corpse- a French Surrealist game in which a poem is passed around and participants add the lines with limited knowledge of what was previously written. Text message- brief communication between two mobile devices. We will be combining these two...
by Ryukan | Apr 17, 2012 | Blog
Michael McClure wrote: Diane is suffering with several painful and even life-threatening illnesses, including removal of all teeth, arthritis from her earlier back operation, extreme problems with glaucoma and a needed operation; but that’s just the top of the list....
by Ryukan | Apr 10, 2012 | Blog
An average day in the city: on the bus, a child mothers a crying parent; a homeless woman peers into the window of a toyshop; a statue in the park seems it has something to say. Beauty lies in the midst of such incongruities, and in those incongruities, poems are...
by Ryukan | Apr 9, 2012 | Blog
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by Ryukan | Apr 5, 2012 | Blog
The Strangeness of Repetition “It is very like a frog hopping he cannot ever hop exactly the same distance of the same way of hopping at every hop. A bird’s singing is perhaps the nearest thing to repetition but if you listen they too vary their insistence.” —Gertrude...
by Ryukan | Mar 28, 2012 | Blog
Here are links to some of the photographs and summaries of the 1st Cascadia Poetry Festival: Barbara Erwine photos: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=2a6e06a3285ad19c&Bsrc=SkyMail&Bpub=SDX.SkyDrive&sc=Photos&id=2A6E06A3285AD19C!200 Kim Goldberg’s...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2012 | Blog
Synesthesia is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic and involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. We are not talking about constructing clever metaphors here, for...
by Ryukan | Mar 26, 2012 | Blog
We’re still recovering from the very successful Cascadia Poetry Festival which SPLAB conceived of and hosted this past weekend. This week in the Living Room we’ll share our best memories of the just-concluded fest, discuss plans for future iterations and...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2012 | Blog
We are in the final stages of preparation for next weekend’s Cascadia Poetry Festival, which is shaping up to be quite the amazing event, and we’d like to thank you all for your support as Paul and I await our own amazing event: the birth of our daughter...
by Ryukan | Mar 14, 2012 | Blog
Nico Vassilakis is curating a night of Puget Sound Poetry, Friday, March 23, 2012 7-9P at Vermillion, 1508 11th Av, as a prelude to the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Including: Cristin Miller Molly Mac Fedyk Ezra Mark Crag Hill Nico Vassilakis Joe Milutis Four Hoarse Men:...
by Ryukan | Mar 13, 2012 | Blog
Prose. Poetry. Prose poetry? While the debate where one ends and the other begins is destined to rage into eternity, few would argue that prose often appeals to our sense of language, and poetry often retains a narrative edge. We’ll look at and discuss the...
