by Ryukan | Feb 4, 2012 | Blog
Legendary Coastal Salish storyteller Johnny Moses conducts the Red Cedar Circle at SPLAB. We were honored to have this remarkable story-teller at SPLAB and delighted to host a Red Cedar Circle at 7PM on February 10. More on Johnny here. Coast Salish songs and stories...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2012 | Blog
A large group of poets committed to seeing SPLAB continue as a Collective came out for the 1.31.12 Living Room. Paul Nelson facilitated and, after announcements and introductions, read Paul Hunter’s Open Books If we don’t read one another who do we ever...
by Ryukan | Jan 24, 2012 | Blog
We’re turning SPLAB over to a collective, a poetic commons, a City of Poets. With the exception of two dates in the Fall, the 2012/2013 SPLAB season is yours to design. It requires a commitment, but that’s to be determined. We want to stick with writers and our bias...
by Ryukan | Jan 23, 2012 | Blog
Tree Swenson is new Executive Director at Richard Hugo House A letter from John Burgess, RHH Board President Hello, I have exciting news to share with you. Richard Hugo House has hired a new Executive Director—Tree Swenson. Tree brings to Hugo House an incredible...
by Ryukan | Jan 23, 2012 | Blog
Nadine a Maestas“Emerge this is not yet thinking” —from Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments In this Living Room session, Nadine Maestas would like us to consider the concept of writing poems that are derived from experimental procedures. Examples will include the...
by Ryukan | Jan 19, 2012 | Blog
It was a phrase used by C.A. Conrad when he visited Seattle and did a reading at SPLAB. He said he loved being part of our City of Poets. Our current Board President, Eze Anamalechi likes the idea of a Poetic Commons. Another Board Member, Joe Chiveney, suggests we...
by Ryukan | Jan 10, 2012 | Blog
For Walt Whitman, body-consciousness seemed to propel the poet beyond anything as simple as “interest” in the physiological processes of the body in health. The 1855 versions of “Song of Myself,” “The Sleepers,” and “I Sing...
by Ryukan | Jan 9, 2012 | Blog
Friday, October 6, Johnny Moses conducted his first Red Cedar Circle at SPLAB. We were honored to have this remarkable story-teller at SPLAB and delighted to host a Red Cedar Circle at 7PM Friday January 13th and the 2nd Friday each month through April, 2012. More on...
by Ryukan | Jan 4, 2012 | Blog
Contact: Paul Nelson FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel: 206-422-5002
E-mail: pen@splab.org CASCADIA POETRY FESTIVAL TO BE HELD MARCH 24-25 IN SEATTLE
Event Includes Workshops, Readings, and...
by Ryukan | Jan 4, 2012 | Blog
Three guys who met at SPLAB in late 2010 started an open mic and have made it one of the most successful new literary events in Seattle. This is from them: so come out and celebrate our borderline toddlerhood! features include poets/academics, sound artists, and a...
by Ryukan | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
With the start of a new year, so comes the opportunity to look ahead, in both life and writing. On the 3rd of January, 2012, Graham Isaac will facilitate a brief discussion of what it means both conceptually and practically to set goals for ones’ writing....
by Ryukan | Dec 18, 2011 | Blog
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at 7PM SPLAB invites all poets, writers and fans of writing to attend an Open Board Meeting to discuss the future of SPLAB as a collective. Our lease at the Columbia School is set to expire at the end of August 2013, but could end sooner...
by Ryukan | Dec 16, 2011 | Blog
Modern Language Association Reading: 60 Writers Saturday, January 7, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. Free. Timed to the Modern Language Association’s mega-conference in Seattle, this marathon reading features 60 upstart,...
by Ryukan | Dec 14, 2011 | Blog
From John Helmiere, who works in the room next door to SPLAB in the Cultural Corner: Hi Everyone, I was beaten, arrested, and jailed by the Seattle Police Department yesterday as I sought to be a non-violent, peace-making presence at an event called West Coast Port...
