SPLACtory and other Collective Ideas

A large group of poets committed to seeing SPLAB continue as a Collective came out for the 1.31.12 Living Room. Paul Nelson facilitated and, after announcements and introductions, read Paul Hunter’s Open Books If we don’t read one another who do we ever...

Breadline Turns One

Three guys who met at SPLAB in late 2010 started an open mic and have made it one of the most successful new literary events in Seattle. This is from them: so come out and celebrate our borderline toddlerhood!  features include poets/academics, sound artists, and a...

Living Room Tuesday N.29.11 7P

Living Room has been brewing with ideas about poetics lately—from the Dada-esque/anti-Dada primal sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters, to Anne Sexton’s reappropriations of myths, and new ways to look at Thanksgiving.  All this has led some rich conversations, however at...

The Breadline Wed 11.16.11 7P

From Alex Bleecker: we’re so excited – we mean last breadline of 2012 – next wed!  we’re featuring the indomitable poetry of doug nufer, the storytelling skills of auntmama & friends, and the electro-poetic oddity that is queequeg (daniel...

Uphook Press (NYC) @ SPLAB, Fri Oct 14, 7P

On Friday, October 14th, the currently-touring, New York-based Uphook Press will present four poets at SPLAB in Columbia City, Seattle. Come out and see visiting poets Matthew Hupert and Eliel Lucero, as well as local poet Greg Bem, present their work to any and all...