by Ryukan | Dec 16, 2010 | Sponsors
It’s a pretty sweet deal. For every $5 you donate to SPLAB, you get an entry in our monthly raffle. That means you are in the running for SPLAB swag, tickets to local events, gift certificates to local businesses and much more. Our next drawing is December 21st...
by Ryukan | Dec 16, 2010 | Blog
When you consider your end of the year, tax-deductible contributions this year, please give to organizations that you care about in your community. It is only through grassroots support that SPLAB has been able to stay afloat. See that handy dandy Join SPLAB tab at...
by Ryukan | Dec 13, 2010 | Events
We take one Tuesday night off from our weekly writer’s circle, Living Room, but we’re back on January 4, 2011, as Paul Nelson presents an homage to Charles Olson, who would have turned 100 on December 27, 2010. SPLAB thanks everyone who contributed in one...
by Ryukan | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog
Notice the two Seattle writers included below and consider supporting this innovative publisher: Dear Poetry Readers and Friends of Chax Press: Poetry, for me, is a community of writers, readers, ideas, words, shapes, and sounds arranged or just appearing in space and...
by Ryukan | Dec 7, 2010 | Events
Since New Yorker Alex Bleecker won’t be spending the holidays back home, he decided to bring New York to the Living Room. This Tuesday, participants will engage in a brief, yet meaningful look at the first seven sections of the title poem of self-declared Objectivist...
by Ryukan | Dec 5, 2010 | Events
Talk, Friday, March 11, 2011, 7:30PM, venue TBA: Descent Beckons Composer/multi-instrumentalist N. writes in Bedouin Hornbook, “What I’m proposing is that we hear into what has up to now only been overheard (if I can put it that way), that we can awaken resources...
by Ryukan | Dec 1, 2010 | Sponsors
Request for Solitary Plover submissions The Friends of Lorine Niedecker are now accepting submissions for the Winter 2011 issue of The Solitary Plover. We accept submissions from the public for the newsletter. Items considered for publication include: essays, book...
by Ryukan | Dec 1, 2010 | Events
It’s the holidays again, and right now, writing is probably the furthest thing from our minds. And if we do manage to get a single moment of silence to write anything, it’s bound to be filled with family drama, alcohol, or one of those other trite associations we have...
by Ryukan | Nov 29, 2010 | Blog, Events
December 12 – Jarret Middleton – 7P plus Open Mic. Emcee Greg Bem. Doe Bay Cafe, Orcas Is. JARRET MIDDLETON is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press, an independent literary publisher in Seattle. He is the author of An Dantomine Eerly, a surreal debut...
by Ryukan | Nov 29, 2010 | Events
Pacific Rim Poetics is the Hugo House workshop offering from Your Wily Splabman starting in late January. See THIS from the Hugo House and please consider taking the 6 week Pacific Rim Poetics course. & remember, there’s a preview this Saturday at SPLAB from...
by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2010 | Blog
SPLAB POETRY WORKSHOP Saturday, December 11 12 to 3pm … the Pacific Coast of America faces the Far East, culturally as well as geographically… – Kenneth Rexroth What does it mean to be a Pacific Rim poet? In this course, we’ll continue our exploration of innovative...
by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2010 | Events
From Christine Leclerc: Hope it’s not rude of me to do this, but I have a call for submissions to disseminate and have been so enjoying The Apocalypse Anthology that I could not resist! I am co-facilitating a 1,173 kilometer-long poetry collaboration...
by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2010 | Events
“If we go back to why one word is chosen over another, we can make a distinction between internal and external decisions as to what is important. By internal, I mean what works on the page, what works within the whole of the design: the activity that occurs among the...
by Ryukan | Nov 19, 2010 | Events
Greg has a fascinating short presentation to kick off the next Living Room, details below, but due to popular demand, Living Room will be extended into January, cutting our tradition holiday break down considerably. We hope to see you & get a taste of your recent...
by Ryukan | Nov 19, 2010 | Events
We’ll be there for Living Room tonight at 7P. Our facilitator, Greg Bem, has a 2 block walk and you know the Link Light Rail stops in Columbia City, three blocks west of the Cultural Corner in the Columbia School where we’ll go over the writing of those...
