by Ryukan | Mar 26, 2012 | Blog
We’re still recovering from the very successful Cascadia Poetry Festival which SPLAB conceived of and hosted this past weekend. This week in the Living Room we’ll share our best memories of the just-concluded fest, discuss plans for future iterations and...
by Ryukan | Mar 15, 2012 | Blog
We are in the final stages of preparation for next weekend’s Cascadia Poetry Festival, which is shaping up to be quite the amazing event, and we’d like to thank you all for your support as Paul and I await our own amazing event: the birth of our daughter...
by Ryukan | Mar 11, 2012 | Blog
Introducing A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology edited by Katharine Whitcomb, Robert Hickey, and Marco Thompson, The Center for Geospatial Poetry at Central Washington University! The project features, via Google Earth, poems by...
by Ryukan | Feb 24, 2012 | Blog
Abecedarians & Other Constraints This week we’ll take on the notion of the abecedarian and combine it with a page or two from a reference book containing an alphabetical listing of words–the dictionary. From early Hebrew poetry to Harryette Mullen,...
by Ryukan | Feb 14, 2012 | Blog
“Words can neither define nor explain” -Alan Watts It is not news that the world is in a constant state of flux (just ask the Fluxus poets, or Siddhartha Gautama). Ever-evolving, it parallels life itself; the only thing absolute is amorphousness. In his seminal...