by Ryukan | May 18, 2010 | Sponsors
The weather may be getting warmer, but the Living Room has ALWAYS been hot. Come and see for yourself tonight in our usual spot–the 2nd floor lounge of Columbia City Cinema. Bring some of your own writing, or just listen and enjoy being in the engaging company...
by Ryukan | May 14, 2010 | Sponsors
From Henry Ferrini, producer of that fine film on Charles Olson, Polis is This. Plans are progressing to establish The Vincent Ferrini/Charles Olson Writers Center at 126 East Main Street, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. This former home of Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007)...
by Ryukan | May 11, 2010 | Sponsors
As you may know by now, your friendly-neighborhood Splabman traveled with his bride-to-be to Brussels in Belguim (& day-tripped to Paris & Bruges) for the Tools of the Sacred conference. Brussels photos are linked here. The essay I wrote for the conference is...
by Ryukan | May 10, 2010 | Sponsors
Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College and has a Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. About Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor...
by Ryukan | May 4, 2010 | Sponsors
Conference Website Wednesday, 5, May, 2010 2.15 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Parallel Sessions I & J Session I: Beat Generation Mysticism I Chair: Franca BELLARSI (Université Libre de Bruxelles) I1 Paul NELSON (Poet, USA): “Projective Verse: The Spiritual Legacy of the Beat...
by Ryukan | Apr 28, 2010 | Sponsors
Peter Pereira may be the most popular Seattle poet. He may be the nicest and that counts for a lot in polite Seattle. He’s also a neighbor of mine. I remember attending his book release reading at Open Books and they had to turn people away. In this intelligent...
by Ryukan | Apr 27, 2010 | Sponsors
Arthur Sze at SAAM Thursday, April 29 / 7 pm Arthur Sze presents “Chinese Writers on Writing” at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. He will be joined by poet and editor Zhang Er and translator Andrea Lingenfelter. Free with museum admission. For a full description of the...
by Ryukan | Apr 20, 2010 | Sponsors
Living Room is moving and shaking at its usual spot tonight, the 2nd floor lounge of Columbia City Cinema. 7PM. Guest moderator Meredith Sedlachek will be hosting, and we hope to see you there–to listen, read and get feedback on your work, or simply enjoy being...
by Ryukan | Apr 19, 2010 | Sponsors
Seattle, WA – Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Columbia City Cinema hosts Seattle-based writer and performer Mary Lou Sanelli for an evening of storytelling and laughter. The Immigrant’s Table is Mary Lou Sanelli’s response to growing up first-generation American...
by Ryukan | Apr 17, 2010 | Sponsors
R. R. Seitz’s writing edge is from deep places. His words wind around in a paddy dike maze wishing the tree line, with-out intention of healing promise or wish of moving the reader. He writes it as his skin moves it. His chapbook seems out of print, but...
by Ryukan | Apr 16, 2010 | Sponsors
Every so often, a major poetry prize will go to someone quite out of the mainstream of US American poetry. Last week it was Rae Armantrout winning the Pulitzer Prize. I had a chance to see her at the Buddhist Center in San Diego a few years ago with Eileen Myles and...
by Ryukan | Apr 15, 2010 | Sponsors
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=109478202416404 papers * live writing * poets theater * sound art * talk-based poetics * voice art * physical theater and digital text * collaboration * polylingualism * lyric meditations * writing interventions * sound poetry...
by Ryukan | Apr 13, 2010 | Sponsors
Tonight at 7P, Living Room. We had 13 people last week for Flavia Rocha & who knows what’ll happen tonight? Details here.
by Ryukan | Apr 9, 2010 | Sponsors
WRM_Reading_Poster Click above for the amazing poster promoting my return to Auburn to read from A Time Before Slaughter, Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:30PM. The White River Valley Museum is at 918 H St. S.E., Auburn, WA. www.wrvmuseum.org for directions or more...
by Ryukan | Apr 8, 2010 | Sponsors
Oh boy. The Hugo House blog people suspected I’d kick up some shit and I probably did. (I do without knowing it! HA!) Anyway, here is the link to their latest profile of Your Wily Splabman. And below, I’ve pasted in the portions THEY put in bold, to give...
