by Ryukan | Sep 30, 2011 | Blog
Andrew Schelling is a poet, translator and longtime teacher at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, part of Naropa University, as well as the Deer Park Institute in India. In July, 2011, he talked with Paul Nelson about his new book:...
by Ryukan | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog
On Friday, October 14th, the currently-touring, New York-based Uphook Press will present four poets at SPLAB in Columbia City, Seattle. Come out and see visiting poets Matthew Hupert and Eliel Lucero, as well as local poet Greg Bem, present their work to any and all...
by Ryukan | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog
A bilingual reading of contemporary Chinese poetry happens this Thursday, September 29, 2011 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, in the Stimson Auditorium at 7:00p. Admission is free and poets Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan visit from China to take part in this exchange. I had...
by Ryukan | Sep 26, 2011 | Events
The mind writes what is. —Gertrude Stein Zuihitisu is a classical Japanese form that looks like prose but sounds like poetry. Zuihitsu has been translated as “following the brush” or “random jottings.” The poet accumulates anecdotes, impressions, overheard...
by Ryukan | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog
Paul, Please forward this to Judith, Carolyn Wright and whomever else was responsible. I am sure that includes Meredith, the grand dame of hosts. The 100K Poets for Change reading at SPLAB this past Saturday was a fabulous event. Each reader’s voice, culture,...
by Ryukan | Sep 25, 2011 | Events
On September 24th, poets gathered at SPLAB & in 650 cities around the world in an event called 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Featured poets at SPLAB for 100 Thousand Poets for Change included City Lights poet and Suquamish native Cedar Sigo, who also facilitated...
by Ryukan | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE IS ORGANIZING A GLOBAL EVENT FOR SEPTEMBER 24th 2011 600 Events – 450 Cities – 95 CountriesJoin other poets around the USA and across the planet, on September 24th, in a demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social,...
by Ryukan | Sep 17, 2011 | Blog
Mickey O’Connor and Nico Vassilakis read in the first SPLAB matinee reading, Saturday, Sept 17 at 3:30. Here’s is the unedited audio from Mickey O, who read from Pushkin’s Umbrella, among other works. Here’s unedited audio from Nico V....
by Ryukan | Sep 17, 2011 | Blog
Thanks to the Wily Almondina and Victor Pascual (of Digital Navajo) the new SPLAB bookmark is here:
by Ryukan | Sep 12, 2011 | Blog
On September 24th, poets will gather (at SPLAB) & in 450 cities around the world in an event called 100 Thousand Poets for Change. The event is designed to change how we see global community and work to cure symptoms of a world that, in Gary Snyder’s words, is...
by Ryukan | Sep 12, 2011 | Blog
Join facilitator Anthony Warnke as he welcomes Verna Press poet David Rowe to the Living Room. David will talk about his work and read some poems and then there will be time for you to debut something new and get intelligent feedback. 7P Tuesday, September 20 @ SPLAB....
by Ryukan | Sep 10, 2011 | Blog
In the 1880’s Nietzsche declared, God is Dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Atheists would argue God was never alive to begin with. Religious fundamentalists disagree. But for the large majority of us – Agnostics, freethinkers, lapsed…whatevers –...
by Ryukan | Sep 5, 2011 | Blog
From Qinghai Lake to Tongren, Xi’an and Beijing, Sounds of China In August, 2010, I received my invitation to the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival and a year later arrived in China with my wife Meredith on August 6, 2011. We spent a night in Beijing and...
by Ryukan | Aug 29, 2011 | Events
Greetings, If you didn’t know already, and if you haven’t sent work already, well, PageBoy Magazine is currently gathering material for its upcoming issue. We are looking for poetry and prose and. Essays and artwork and. Fakes and masterpieces so long...
by Ryukan | Aug 28, 2011 | Blog
Every step once taken in the first advance of the human race, from the amoeba to the highest type of intelligence, has been duplicated, every step exactly paralleling the one that preceded in the dead ages gone by. A perfect plagiarism results.Everything is and is...
