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Cascadia Poetry Festival Advisory Board

If you are wondering what SPLAB has been up to lately, we’re scaling back in preparation of something quite huge. In our last season, Sept 2011 to June 2012, we produced 51 events. With the arrival of Ella Roque Nelson, that pace became impossible, so we decided...

Silence & Communication: September 1, 2011

(From Greg Bem) On Thursday, September 1st, we are hosting a large-scale group reading and performance at the event space Sole Repair on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The event will feature 22 writers of different backgrounds and disciplines, as well as a host of local...

The Breadline 2

The second Breadline event is going down at Vermillion, on Wednesday the 16th of February. The performers are: Entertainer musician extraordinaire Cooper Smith. Grotesque and mysterious, mystical literary marksman Jarret Middleton (of Dark Coast Press).Poetic...

Dec 12 SPLAB @ Doe Bay

December 12 – Jarret Middleton – 7P plus Open Mic. Emcee Greg Bem. Doe Bay Cafe, Orcas Is. JARRET MIDDLETON is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press, an independent literary publisher in Seattle. He is the author of An Dantomine Eerly, a surreal debut...

Birth of a Seattle Indy Press

Here’s an excerpt from a piece Aaron Talwar wrote on founding Dark Coast Press in Seattle. The whole essay is linked below… “We named the new baby Dark Coast Press, after a line in Ezra Pound’s First Canto (‘Elpenor, how art thou come to...