by Splabman | Mar 14, 2011 | Blog
The SPLAB Visiting Poet Series welcomed Nathaniel Mackey to Seattle March 11 and 12, 2011, for a prose reading and conversation, a workshop and a poetry reading. For many reasons, this event set a new high water mark for SPLAB. Mackey was the 2nd Visiting Poet to read...
by Splabman | Jan 23, 2011 | Events
The ghazal is an Arabic poetic form developed in 10th century Persia from the verse form gasida. Through the spread of the Mogul empire, it made its way through the Middle East to Pakistan and India, where it enjoys popularity to this day. It is also meant to be...
by Splabman | Oct 10, 2010 | Events
Pacific Rim Poetics (a SPLAB Workshop Preview Saturday, October 30, 2010, 12N-3P) People in the rest of the U.S. and in Europe have difficulty in adjusting to the fact that the Pacific Coast of America faces the Far East, culturally as well as geographically…...