by Ryukan | Feb 10, 2011 | Events
SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a talk at the NW African-American Museum. The...
by Ryukan | Feb 9, 2011 | Events
OPEN BOOKS If we don’t read one another who do we ever read and if we don’t read one another who can we expect to read us? and if we don’t read one another and if we don’t read why bother writing these lines so deep in our faces that take so...
by Ryukan | Feb 7, 2011 | Events
February 20 – Anastacia Tolbert – 7P plus Open Mic. Emcee Alex Bleecker. Anastacia Tolbert is a writer, Cave Canem Fellow, 8th grade teacher and Resident Writer at Seattle Girls’ School. She is the recipient of the 2004 San Diego Journalism Press Club Award for the...
by Ryukan | Feb 3, 2011 | Events
The SPLAB Word Orchestra, a multi-voice poetry performance group will be performing at this year’s Folk Life Festival. This year’s performance will be a multilingual, cross generational, multicultural effort around the festival’s theme “telling...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2011 | Events
“Represent! 98118!” is a community arts project seeking to document “A Day in the Life of America’s Most Diverse Zip Code.” From midnight to midnight, on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, poets and photographers, amateurs and professionals will make a record of life in...
by Ryukan | Feb 1, 2011 | Events
PROSE POETRY WORKSHOP @ SPLAB Saturday, February 19 12N to 3P Prose poetry has a long-established tradition in France, with Aloysius Bertrand, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. In this workshop, we’ll explore five distinct approaches to writing prose poetry, & will include...
