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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.
Sam O’Hana on How to Support Working Class Poets
When I said that what’s good for general society is also good for poets, I’m talking about a series of cultural opportunities where a much wider stretch of people are allowed to take the opportunity to become writers. I came back from a conference last week where I presented some research on the demographic aspects of the New American poets. The poets that were born and came to maturity in the early to mid-20th century were beneficiaries of broad national scale longevity gains. This [includes] things like pushbacks against tuberculosis, against polio, against poor nutrition and infant mortality. These are gains that were made by the medical and scientific institutions, but also by general prosperity, by making more food available to more people and making that food shelf stable for longer. So, when you talk about what might make it possible for poor people to do more creative work, you could start by saying well we should just give people more money, but the fact of the matter is that plenty of people already have the wealth they need, they just don’t actually have any time.
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Winter in America (Again Audio from Seattle Feb 5, 2025
Audio from February 4 2025 Winter in America (Again at Seattle U with Jason Wirth, Paul E Nelson, Catalina Cantú, Stacey Jones, Zach Charles, Terran Campbell, Deborah Bacharach, Matt Trease, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs.
Richard Hugo House and the Writing Community
It is with great sorrow that I sit to compose this post about the Seattle writing community. For many years now,...
(Indigenous) Cascadian Zen
SPLAB Board Member Jason Wirth and I had the good fortune to interview Wedlidi Speck about an indigenous perspective...
Christine Lowther’s Tree Anthology
Christine Lowther, the Poet Laureate of Tofino, BC, and a Make it True poet, had a call for poets who love TREES. IT...
Tetsuzen Jason Wirth on SPLAB Ahimsa
How are two of SPLAB's key programs (the August POetry POstcard Fest and the Cascadia Poetry Fest related?) See...
Mike O’Connor Obituary
Mike O’Connor August 3, 1944 - January 4, 2021 https://www.ptleader.com/stories/mike-oconnor Obit by Tim McNulty and...
Name as Fundamental Pattern
Join Ian Boyden for a reading of poems from A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations, a collection of poems translating the names of schoolchildren killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
EBSN 2021
The call for EBSN 2021, the European Beat Studies Network
SPLAB @ 27
It was just 27 years ago on this date that the organization now known as SPLAB was registered with the State of Washington as a non-profit organization.
After August Ends
POPO, the August POetry POstcard Festval was designed in part to give participants a sense of how to compose poetry...
Easy Speak Open Mic and Theresa Whitehill
SPLAB is honored to partner with Easy Speak Seattle to present a night of open mic poetry and featured reader Theresa Whitehill, from Ukiah, CA on Monday, August 24 at 7:30 via Zoom. This event is supported by Poets & Writers.
Approaches to POPO Collage
Please join us Sunday, August 2 at 4pm PDT, for a Zoom discussion on how three different veteran POPO participants...
POPO Seriality
Our Best POPO Practices Zoom webinar last Saturday (July 11 @ 11am) with J.I. Kleinberg and Ina Roy-Faderman was a hit...
Statement in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Thanks to Seattle Civic Poet Jourdan Keith for tipping SPLAB off to this, which we present as our statement of...
Last Call for POPO
Last Call to Send Poetry Postcards to Strangers
Give Big Thanks
SPLAB GOT VERY CLOSE its Give Big goal of $1,500 today, getting to $1,411.54 thanks to several donors, including Larry...