by Ryukan | Jan 24, 2012 | Blog
We’re turning SPLAB over to a collective, a poetic commons, a City of Poets. With the exception of two dates in the Fall, the 2012/2013 SPLAB season is yours to design. It requires a commitment, but that’s to be determined. We want to stick with writers and our bias...
by Ryukan | Jan 10, 2012 | Blog
For Walt Whitman, body-consciousness seemed to propel the poet beyond anything as simple as “interest” in the physiological processes of the body in health. The 1855 versions of “Song of Myself,” “The Sleepers,” and “I Sing...
by Ryukan | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
With the start of a new year, so comes the opportunity to look ahead, in both life and writing. On the 3rd of January, 2012, Graham Isaac will facilitate a brief discussion of what it means both conceptually and practically to set goals for ones’ writing....
by Ryukan | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
As Thanksgiving approaches school children learn the story of pilgrims, Plymouth rock, helpful natives and thanks. As those children grow older they realize that the way the pilgrims gave thanks was genocide. That kind of ruins the story. Using examples such as...
by Ryukan | Oct 21, 2011 | Blog
Have you had an absurd or incomprehensible dream lately? Rich subconscious secrets and great poems cleverly hide behind and between dream images. Often the more absurd the inviting dream and its connections are, the more rich meaning resides. It is our linear mind...
