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splab archive blog
Cascadia Poetics LAB was known as SPLAB prior to September 2021. Here you will find past SPLAB blog articles going back to 2009.
SPLAB’s Cascadia Work (The Art of Resistance)
SPLAB has been facilitating events since 2012 that combine bioregionalism and poetry. Perhaps the deepest form of...
Levertov Plaque Unveiled
A small but appreciative group of Denise Levertov fans (including her former doctor) gathered Saturday (12.3.16) at...
Brenda Hillman at Open Books, November 19, 2009
I got to Open Books ten minutes before the reading was scheduled to start. Most of the crowd came after I arrived....
Fred Wah, Richard Hugo, Food & Ministry
Last night's Living Room, our third edition in our new home, was another satisfying exchange of original work, and one...
E-Fishwrapper
Sam Hamill’s latest Poets Against War editorial & more... At the recent Seattle Bookfest in our new Columbia City...
Open Books Schedule
Open Books upcoming readings. Go. Hear. Buy. Live.
Paul Nelson’s new book: A Time Before Slaughter is released!
My new book was conceived sometime late in 1997, and when Joanne Kyger came to SPLAB and heard me talk about the...
Link to Lorca piece on CNN.com
Digging Lorca takes on new meaning with the news that the Spanish government may exhume what are believed to be his...
Eileen Myles at Elliott Bay Book Company, October 10, 2009
She was named by BUST magazine as “the rock star of modern poetry” & that would usually be the death knell for a...
Charles Olson
USAmericans LOVE their dead poets. Especially those who they can’t or aren’t able to understand during the poet’s...
Silliman’s Blog
For a poet in the U.S., one can get the impression that academic poetry is all that is happening, all that matters in...
Fred Wah Book Release Party
Last night I drove up to Vancouver to attend the Fred Wah book release party. With Fred as the night’s headliner and the emcee being George Bowering, two of the most important North American poets of a generation, I knew this would be an event well worth attending. I left Seattle early, checked into the downtown hostel and arrived WAY early, but basically had my pick of seats.
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