Cascadia Poetics LAB was known as SPLAB prior to September 2021. Here you will find past SPLAB blog articles going back to 2009.
The paintings of Kenjiro Nomura are featured at the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington and a new book by art historian Barbara Johns, Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey, is the topic of discussion.
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BC poet Fred Wah talks about his lecture The Simple, as well as the concept of serial poetry and his Music at the Heart of Thinking.
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Open Books is moving to Pioneer Square and needs your support
SPLAB Board Member Jason Wirth and I had the good fortune to interview Wedlidi Speck about an indigenous perspective...
Christine Lowther, the Poet Laureate of Tofino, BC, and a Make it True poet, had a call for poets who love TREES. IT...
How are two of SPLAB's key programs (the August POetry POstcard Fest and the Cascadia Poetry Fest related?) See...
Mike O’Connor August 3, 1944 - January 4, 2021 https://www.ptleader.com/stories/mike-oconnor Obit by Tim McNulty and...
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.
The call for EBSN 2021, the European Beat Studies Network
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.
POPO, the August POetry POstcard Festval was designed in part to give participants a sense of how to compose poetry...
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.
Please join us Sunday, August 2 at 4pm PDT, for a Zoom discussion on how three different veteran POPO participants...
Our Best POPO Practices Zoom webinar last Saturday (July 11 @ 11am) with J.I. Kleinberg and Ina Roy-Faderman was a hit...
Thanks to Seattle Civic Poet Jourdan Keith for tipping SPLAB off to this, which we present as our statement of...
Last Call to Send Poetry Postcards to Strangers
SPLAB GOT VERY CLOSE its Give Big goal of $1,500 today, getting to $1,411.54 thanks to several donors, including Larry...
SPLAB participates in the annual Give Big non-profit fundraiser May 5-6, 2020.