by Ryukan | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog
A new feature on KBCS,91.3FM Thursday afternoons is SPLAB Presents, featuring segments from interviews Paul Nelson has conducted, or segments of readings he’s recorded. Judith Roche is a Seattle poet and arts educator who is featured on next SPLAB Presents...
by Ryukan | Jul 2, 2011 | Blog
From Kelly Boyker: We are pleased to announce the inaugural launch of Menacing Hedge:Summer 2011 edition. This issue features kick-ass work from Juliet Cook, Christine Hamm, Beth Coyote, Paul Nelson, Chenelle Milford, Meg Pokrass, Nancy Ibsen, Lauren India Henley,...
by Ryukan | Jun 30, 2011 | Events
Hello friends, As they say, I apologize for the mass mail. But I wanted to let you all know that my latest and last [likely] Todd Moore book is finished. As you may recall, he passed away last March while I was working on it. One of the seven final books can be found...
by Ryukan | Jun 28, 2011 | Events
Proudly Present The Poetry of Place: Expressing Your Sense of Place through Poetry with Judith Roche, Followed by a reading featuring Judith Roche and WPA Cascade Authors Saturday July 16, 2011 Workshop 1:00-4:00pm, Reading 4:30 to 6:00pm, Bonair Winery, 500 South...
by Ryukan | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog
The 2nd SPLAB season in Columbia City (and 9th over all) ends on Tuesday, June 28 at 7PM. Your Wily Splabman facilitates and takes you on a poetry postcard journey. This August the annual Poetry Postcard Fest continues. Lana Ayers and I started this in 2007 and more...
by Ryukan | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog
Your Wily Splabman has been getting his grubby hands, voice and ears back into radio again thanks to KBCS.FM, 91.3. Host of the Friday edition of the music/public affairs hybrid The Morning Blend, he’s also been producing SPLAB Presents which has featured, in...
by Ryukan | Jun 7, 2011 | Blog
Nico continues his rich line of inquiry on how visual information is processed: staring@poetics 2011, 5″ x 8″, 56 pgs, Full Color. ISBN 1-936687-03-8 | EAN-13978-1-936687-03-9 $12 To read about the book or purchase a copy –...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog
What do onomatopoeia, scat singing, synethesia, word-as-image, l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e poetry, the Dogon idea of “Mu” (via Nathaniel Mackey) and its connection to Charles Olson’s idea of “pre-utterance,” and ancient occult ideas of “nyama” and...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Events
It’s possible that some of you didn’t see your exercise when I posted it to Facebook, so I want to make sure you can see it. Here’s the link: http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/ THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! I had an amazing time! And enjoyed...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog
From Christopher Casamassima: http://freepoetryfor.blogspot.com/ [Free Poetry For], formerly, PO25¢EM is an ongoing series of tiny chapbooks (4.25″ by 5.5″) that are printed in a limited edition of 100 copies. We started publishing these chapbooks in 2004, and they...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Events
When image is connected with word what happens? From Blake to street art there has been a meaningful dialogue between these mediums. Bring your favorite works that express this type of multi media experience and we will discuss how these forms inform one another when...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog
From Alex Bleecker: yessir, we’re back! june 15th – 2 weeks from tonight – it’s going down, and hard. same bat time, same bat channel. get out of your charnel and come over… featuring: morris stegosaurus (multimedia performance poetry)...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Events
We’ll invite ourselves to play with words by moving the words of another poet around on paper. We’ll think about the words that commonly show up in our work, and how we can pull them from one poem to make a thread to begin something new, maybe something similar— maybe...
by Ryukan | May 24, 2011 | Blog
We’re sad to see the demise of Pilot Books, a tiny store on Capitol Hill, but energetic supporter of innovative writing. On Monday, June 20 at 7:30 PM, SPLAB welcomes two writers who had planned to read at Pilot move to our friendly neighborhood SPLAB: Amelia...
by Ryukan | May 22, 2011 | Events
From Thomas Walton, Greetings! PageBoy has proofs, and the proof is in the, uh, printer. Issue III 11 will be out and all over everywhere soon – like pudding I guess. If you want to see the magazine FIRST, join us at Arabica (Capitol Hill, Seattle) on Sat. June...
