by Ryukan | Nov 3, 2010 | Events
November 14 – Barbara Ludwig (Female Nomad & Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World) – 7P Reading plus Open Mic. Emcee Aaron Talwar. November 15 – Film: Slumdog Millionaire. 7P Screening. Former San Juan Island resident, Barbara...
by Ryukan | Nov 1, 2010 | Events
Resisting the Intelligence (Alex Bleecker facilitates) Often likened to Billy Collins and criticized by academics as seeking to ‘dumb down’ poetry, acclaimed poet and critic Tony Hoagland has always been an advocate of making/keeping poetry accessible. Worried that...
by Ryukan | Nov 1, 2010 | Events
Interview with Greg Bem on this event here. FINE & HEAVY, ARTS & ARTISANS! GUEST ARTISTS AND ARTISANS! LIVE MUSIC! FOOD, LIBATIONS, FESTIVITIES! FORKLIFT POETRY : 6 PM : FORKLIFT STAGE Kim Ionesco, Deborah Henry, Richard Lemmert, Greg Bem, M. Anne Sweet, emcee...
by Ryukan | Oct 27, 2010 | Events
21 Poets, 1 Planet… An anthology to inspire hope in humanity – full of ‘lifeboat poetry’, Soul of the Earth is life-affirming, accessible and profound. Challenging received wisdoms and pushing boundaries, these cutting edge poems are from...
by Ryukan | Oct 26, 2010 | Blog
Much of the summer Your Wily SPLABman was busy reading poems and interviewing Northwest poets for a Ratapallax Magazine feature. You can see biographies here. There’s a chance we’ll start doing some radio again. The Rattapallax feature is linked here:...
by Ryukan | Oct 20, 2010 | Events
To open up our second SPLAB Living Room Tuesday, November 2, Maryna Ajaja will read a small essay on rhythm, How Are Verses Made? by Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Why Mayakovsky? Because he was a revolutionary poet, a genius, a hipster, actor and artist — and...
by Ryukan | Oct 18, 2010 | Events
October 31 – Sam Hamill – 7PM Reading. Sam Hamill is the author of more than forty books, including fifteen volumes of original poetry (most recently Measured by Stone and Almost Paradise: New & Selected Poems & Translations); four collections of literary...
by Ryukan | Oct 18, 2010 | Events
From one of the new SPLAB facilitators, Alex Bleecker. Welcome him to Seattle: hell strung & crooked Wednesday, October 27, 8-10p, free New York indie poetry publisher Uphook Press launches its new national anthology “hell strung & crooked” with a...
by Ryukan | Oct 14, 2010 | Blog
Truth Has Fallen in the Street by Edward Smith It’s an early afternoon in October. I’m in Seattle and I’m winding down from a reading of Truth Has Fallen in the Street, a posthumous publication of Edward Smith’s poems and critical writings. It was put out by Charles...
by Ryukan | Oct 14, 2010 | Sponsors
D–Diction–Dictionary What dictionaries are within you waiting to be told? What words are yours and what are their meanings? In this writing workshop you will bring together threads from your history and imagination and begin to create a dictionary that is uniquely...
by Ryukan | Oct 13, 2010 | Blog
Mike Dillon did a great job with this. I am grateful to him for taking care to get the story right. (Organic poetry goes a little beyond most Beat poetry, but that’s splitting hairs.)
by Ryukan | Oct 10, 2010 | Events
Poets are lucky if they have three good readers of their work. Bring a friend to Living Room and you’re guaranteed that number! Living Room, our writer’s critique circle resumes October 26 to kick off SPLAB’s 2010-2011 season. Jon us at the new SPLAB...
by Ryukan | Oct 10, 2010 | Events
Sunday, October 17 – Michael McClure – 7:30PM Reading Monday, October 18 – Film: Abstract Alchemist of Flesh. 7:30PM showing, with post-film discussion. Michael McClure Michael McClure is a poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist who initially gained fame as one of...
by Ryukan | Oct 10, 2010 | Events
Our 2010/2011 season kicks off in our new SPLAB Tuesday, October 26, at 7PM with Living Room. Come to read new work for a gentle critique, come to share the work of someone else, or come just to be in the engaging company of other writers. Bring 10 copies of your new...
