by Ryukan | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
Just when the earth reaches maximum axial tilt and dark winter looms, people do a strange thing: they act as if times are flush. Winter solstice celebrations everywhere feature rich food and drink. There were practical reasons for this in herding and agrarian...
by Ryukan | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
Tentative Schedule: Saturday, March 24, 2012 Night Keynote Talk/Reading, selected faculty on Cascadian Culture, 15-30 minutes each and discussion. 7:30-10P, SPLAB. Sam Hamill, Judith Roche, Trevor Carolan, Tim McNulty, others TBA. Saturday and Sunday: Morning...
by Ryukan | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
If, as Marvin Bell’s quote for last week’s Living Room suggests, poetry differs from prose for what it leaves out, why do some writers cast a poem in prose form? When does prose become poetry? When does poetry become prose? When do either prose or poetry...
by Ryukan | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
From Molly McNulty: Hello All We are excited to announce our 2012 lineup for the May 17-20 Skagit River Poetry Festival. We have brought back some of our favorite poets and are excited to have many poets who have not yet been to Skagit share their poetry with us. I...
by Ryukan | Dec 4, 2011 | Blog
Friday, January 13th, Johnny Moses conducts his fourth Red Cedar Circle at SPLAB. We were honored to have this remarkable story-teller at SPLAB and delighted to host a Red Cedar Circle starting at 7PM. Bring snacks if you like and a donation to the cause. Johnny...
by Ryukan | Nov 30, 2011 | Blog
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. —Marvin Bell What is erasure poetry and why does Ron Silliman compare it to the play of burlesque or striptease? Come to Living Room to consider the possibilities. After...
by Ryukan | Nov 29, 2011 | Blog
From Anthony Pfannensteil by way of Angel Latterell: Nov.29,2011 CALL FOR POEM SUBMISSIONS (WWW.FAULTLINESPOETRY.COM) FAULT LINES POETRY JOURNAL is calling for poets of all ages and backgrounds to submit their poems for publication: an exciting opportunity to get...
by Ryukan | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
Living Room has been brewing with ideas about poetics lately—from the Dada-esque/anti-Dada primal sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters, to Anne Sexton’s reappropriations of myths, and new ways to look at Thanksgiving. All this has led some rich conversations, however at...
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...
