by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog
Ted Berrigan (Nov. 15, 1934-July 4, 1983) was a master practitioner of a multiplicity of strategies for making poems, among them appropriation, collage, collaboration, misreadings and mistranslations, found poetry, and list poems. In his mix of voices and sources he...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula —from “Ursonate” by Kurt Schwitters One thing that seems to distinguish poems from prose is sound. I hope for us to consider the relationship of primal sound to the...
by Ryukan | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
From Spankstra Press: Do you remember Scooby-Doo? Well, this announcement has nothing to do with that. Do you remember SPREAD: The Monthly Journal of Poetry? It was a free poetry zine passed out around Seattle from October 2000 to July 2003. It featured the works of...
by Ryukan | Oct 30, 2011 | Blog
I am grateful to Philip Brautigam for his amazing and generous work on my website redesign. See it here: www.PaulENelson.com. He has become a WordPress expert and I love the user friendly nature of the design. I’ll be migrating American Sentences and Organic...
by Ryukan | Oct 28, 2011 | Blog
Seattle’s own Wave Books presents its 2nd annual 3 Days of Poetry festival. This year the festival will celebrate POETRY IN TRANSLATION, November 4th through 6th, in association with the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, featuring readings in...
by Ryukan | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog
The Uncanny It’s alive! Or is it? Genre writers know how to make your skin crawl. A favorite item in their toolkit: The uncanny. I don’t just mean something spooky. I mean something that seems familiar but also strange. Think of the pod people from Invasion of the...
by Ryukan | Oct 21, 2011 | Blog
Have you had an absurd or incomprehensible dream lately? Rich subconscious secrets and great poems cleverly hide behind and between dream images. Often the more absurd the inviting dream and its connections are, the more rich meaning resides. It is our linear mind...
by Ryukan | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
From Jeanne Heuving: Do come, reserve tickets with Henry (or take your chances), and forward this announcement: The Henry Art Gallery, UW Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, and Writing For Their Lives presents: DODIE BELLAMY, KEVIN KILLIAN, CARLA HARRYMAN,...
by Ryukan | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog
I pulled this from the SUNY Buffalo listserv from Rob McLennan: I will be blogging soon at The Capilano Review blog, alongside Lisa Robertson, Pauline Butling + George Bowering. http://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/people/rob-mclennan/...
by Ryukan | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog
What is the cultural context for poetry at this particular moment in history? What do readers hunger for in the age of the electronic reader? What are the impacts of advancing technology and declining meaningful time spent engaging beyond the computer/smartphone...
by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2011 | Blog
While in China for the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival this past August, I met one of the most renowned younger Chinese poets, Xi Chuan. He has a book coming out next year entitled Notes on the Mosquito, published in translation by New Directions. In...
by Ryukan | Oct 9, 2011 | Blog
This week on SPLAB Presents, Paul Nelson has a bit of Johnny Moses from his new CD, produced at Jack Straw Productions. Johnny Moses is a Tulalip Native American raised in the remote Nuu-chah-nulth village of Ohiat on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British...
by Ryukan | Oct 9, 2011 | Events
When someone tells you where they’re from, are they quick to qualify their statement? When you know a poet hails from a certain locale, how does that effect your perception of them? If Frank O’ Hara had been from Oklahoma, would you read him the same way?...
by Ryukan | Oct 8, 2011 | 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 December 9 and the 2nd Friday each month through April, 2012. More on...
by Ryukan | Oct 2, 2011 | Blog
“To be frank, the inevitable panel discussion on the ‘poetry of place’ bores me: it takes place too literally. The place of poetry is nothing less than the place of love, for language; the place of shifting ground, for human song; the place of the made,...
