by Ryukan | Aug 26, 2011 | Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michael Rothenberg, Founder 100 Thousand Poets for Change P.O. Box 870 Guerneville, Ca 95446 Phone: 305-753-4569 http://www.100TPC.org walterblue@bigbridge.org Poets Worldwide Unite for the Truly Historic “100 Thousand Poets for...
by Ryukan | Aug 24, 2011 | Events
Nico Vassilakis has been active in Seattle’s literary community for 20 years. His recent work includes co-editing The Last Vispo: Visual Poetry Anthology 1998-2008 forthcoming from Fantagraphics Books in Fall 2012. Mickey O’Connor is the author of three...
by Ryukan | Aug 21, 2011 | Blog
(From Greg Bem) On Thursday, September 1st, we are hosting a large-scale group reading and performance at the event space Sole Repair on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The event will feature 22 writers of different backgrounds and disciplines, as well as a host of local...
by Ryukan | Aug 18, 2011 | Blog
Talk, Friday, November 11, 7:30P at SPLAB Workshop, Saturday, November 12, 1-4P @ SPLAB Reading Saturday, Nov 12 at 7:30P @ SPLAB Across Categories: The Personal-Political- Innovative-Eco-Expressive Poem (November 12, 2011 Brenda Hillman SPLAB Workshop) Participants...
by Ryukan | Aug 17, 2011 | Blog
George Bowering is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. The author of more than 90 books, Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they...
by Ryukan | Aug 14, 2011 | Blog
On August 5 Meredith and I left for Beijing and after a one-night stop there, we were dropped in to an international “City of Poets” to use C.A. Conrad’s phrase. This was in Xining at the Qinghai Hotel. All my expenses were covered and Meredith only...
by Ryukan | Aug 1, 2011 | Blog
WHAT: WAR OF READING – The World Books of Louis CABRI, Donato MANCINI & Robert MITTENTHAL WHERE: SPokenword LAB (SPLAB) – 3651 S Edmunds in Columbia City, just west of Rainier, one block south of Alaska....
by Ryukan | Aug 1, 2011 | Blog
Monday, August 8, 2011, 6-7:30pm FOR ARTS ADMINISTRATORS: Tuesday, August 9, 2011, Noon – 1:00pm 4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place South, Seattle RSVP: rsvp4culture@gmail.com 4Culture is pleased to host two presentations by Eleanor Whitney from Artspire, a program of...
by Ryukan | Jul 26, 2011 | Events
Join us at SPLAB, Wednesday, September 21st at 7:30 for a reading of one visiting poet (New Orleans) and one recently transplanted poet who has become very active in the local literary scene. Verna Press, in New Orleans is touring the West Coast with the poet David...
by Ryukan | Jul 25, 2011 | Events
Trev Carolan is the editor of Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature. Paul Nelson caught up with him at the Prophouse Cafe in Vancouver to talk about the book. SPLAB Presents for the week of July 25, 2011. The whole interview with Trevor Carolan....
by Ryukan | Jul 16, 2011 | Blog
The August 2011 Postcard Fest Returns! Here’s what’s involved. Sign up here. Get yourself at least 31 postcards. These can be found at book stores, thrift shops, online, drug stores, antique shops, museums, gift shops. (You’ll be amazed at how...
by Ryukan | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog
The Willing Heart- Stories of Love and Laughter Presented by The Seattle Storytelling Guild and SPLAB DATE: Friday, July 22 at 7:00 PM LOCATION: SPLAB 3651 S. Edmunds, Seattle, WA 98118 In the Columbia Cultural Corner (the former Columbia School). Enter from Edmunds....
by Ryukan | Jul 12, 2011 | Events
100 THOUSAND Poets For Change happens at SPLAB September 24, 2011 and around the world. Cedar Sigo is our featured poet at 8P. (Main website here.) Cedar reads at 8P and facilitates a workshop from 3-6P on the San Francisco Renaissance (Joanne Kyger, John Weiners and...
by Ryukan | Jul 11, 2011 | Blog
From Alex Bleecker: yes, this means we’ll be marrying off minors, so if you’ve got one of your own that you’d like to get rid of, bring some dowry money and we’ll take it from there. it also means we’ll be featuring some of the most...
by Ryukan | Jul 7, 2011 | Blog
From Hedgebrook: Hedgebrook is plunging into the 21st century! We are excited to offer an online application process for the 2012 Writers in Residence program. A residency at Hedgebrook offers women writers the opportunity to unplug from their daily lives and immerse...
