by Ryukan | Feb 10, 2011 | Events
SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a talk at the NW African-American Museum. The...
by Ryukan | Feb 9, 2011 | Events
OPEN BOOKS If we don’t read one another who do we ever read and if we don’t read one another who can we expect to read us? and if we don’t read one another and if we don’t read why bother writing these lines so deep in our faces that take so...
by Ryukan | Feb 7, 2011 | Events
February 20 – Anastacia Tolbert – 7P plus Open Mic. Emcee Alex Bleecker. Anastacia Tolbert is a writer, Cave Canem Fellow, 8th grade teacher and Resident Writer at Seattle Girls’ School. She is the recipient of the 2004 San Diego Journalism Press Club Award for the...
by Ryukan | Feb 6, 2011 | Blog
Who do you live for? Who do you work for? Who do you love for? Who would you die for? Who is your art for? In this week’s Living Room the focus will be on audience and readership. As a writer you might spend most of the time satisfying your muse, your inner...
by Ryukan | Feb 5, 2011 | Blog
SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a Friday night talk at the NW African-American...
by Ryukan | Feb 3, 2011 | Events
The SPLAB Word Orchestra, a multi-voice poetry performance group will be performing at this year’s Folk Life Festival. This year’s performance will be a multilingual, cross generational, multicultural effort around the festival’s theme “telling...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2011 | Events
“Represent! 98118!” is a community arts project seeking to document “A Day in the Life of America’s Most Diverse Zip Code.” From midnight to midnight, on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, poets and photographers, amateurs and professionals will make a record of life in...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2011 | Events
PROSE POETRY WORKSHOP @ SPLAB Saturday, February 19 12N to 3P Prose poetry has a long-established tradition in France, with Aloysius Bertrand, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. In this workshop, we’ll explore five distinct approaches to writing prose poetry, & will include...
by Ryukan | Jan 31, 2011 | Blog
Meredith A. Nelson hosts, sharing some Chinese writing, but mainly just letting people share their work and get feedback…because that’s what Living Room is all about. That’s how we roll. Writers of all ages and skill levels gather Tuesdays at 7P to...
by Ryukan | Jan 31, 2011 | Blog
600 Words for Two New Books of Balanced Verse Michael McClure: Mysteriosos and Other Poems (New Directions, 2010) Not having read any Michael McClure since my undergraduate education a couple years ago, I was struck with curiosity when I learned about this book. I’m...
by Ryukan | Jan 28, 2011 | Events
The second Breadline event is going down at Vermillion, on Wednesday the 16th of February. The performers are: Entertainer musician extraordinaire Cooper Smith. Grotesque and mysterious, mystical literary marksman Jarret Middleton (of Dark Coast Press).Poetic...
by Ryukan | Jan 26, 2011 | Events
Got THIS in the SPLAB inbox today: Local arts consortium seeks practitioners of dangerous, witty and unfettered theatre & art to create an urban carnival humming with salon & speakeasy undertones. Barnstorm is part performance space, part art gallery, part bar...
by Ryukan | Jan 23, 2011 | Events
The ghazal is an Arabic poetic form developed in 10th century Persia from the verse form gasida. Through the spread of the Mogul empire, it made its way through the Middle East to Pakistan and India, where it enjoys popularity to this day. It is also meant to be...
by Ryukan | Jan 22, 2011 | Blog
SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a talk at the NW African-American Museum. The...
by Ryukan | Jan 22, 2011 | Events
Time Tuesday, February 8 at 6:00pm – February 9 at 11:00pm Location Hermann’s Jazz Club, Victoria BC 753 View Street Victoria, BC Created By Pacific Rim Review of Books More Info The Abstract Alchemist of Flesh, Films, February 8th at Merlin’s Sun Reading...
