by Splabman | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog
To paraphrase Bo Diddley: I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie A brand new house on the road side, and it’s a-made out of rattlesnake hide Got a band new chimney put on top, and it’s a-made out of human skull Come on...
by Splabman | Feb 5, 2012 | Blog
This week in the Living Room, your host Jeremy Springsteed will warm up our minds for the circle with a free association word game. Bring something to write with and on. Speaking of free association: Have you purchased your pass to the Cascadia Poetry Festival yet?...
by Splabman | Jan 23, 2012 | Blog
Nadine a Maestas“Emerge this is not yet thinking” —from Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments In this Living Room session, Nadine Maestas would like us to consider the concept of writing poems that are derived from experimental procedures. Examples will include the...
by Splabman | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
Just when the earth reaches maximum axial tilt and dark winter looms, people do a strange thing: they act as if times are flush. Winter solstice celebrations everywhere feature rich food and drink. There were practical reasons for this in herding and agrarian...
by Splabman | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
If, as Marvin Bell’s quote for last week’s Living Room suggests, poetry differs from prose for what it leaves out, why do some writers cast a poem in prose form? When does prose become poetry? When does poetry become prose? When do either prose or poetry...