SPLAB 20th Anniversary (Jan 18, 2014)

It was December 13, 1993, when It Plays in Peoria Productions was formed in Auburn, Washington. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to, among other things: Injecting a Little Wisdom into the Information Age. We were started as an organization that existed to...

Readings & Interviews

This page features some of the SPLAB archive, including interviews done for SPLAB with Visiting Poets, Northwest Poets, readings at SPLAB and elsewhere that we’ve recorded, & radio segments including SPLAB Presents, which aired for several months in 2011 and...

Get to Know a Local Poet: Paul Nelson

Oh boy. The Hugo House blog people suspected I’d kick up some shit and I probably did. (I do without knowing it! HA!) Anyway, here is the link to their latest profile of Your Wily Splabman. And below, I’ve pasted in the portions THEY put in bold, to give...

Interview with Jerome Rothenberg

Nice work by Mark Weiss here, interviewing the remarkable Jerome Rothenberg: Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet and the author of over eighty books of poetry and ten breakthrough anthologies of experimental and traditional poetries including...

E-Fishwrapper

Hope you are ready for 2010. While you get ready, & while SPLAB’s writer’s critique circle gets ready to resume on Tuesday, February 2 at 7PM, here are a few items of a mostly literary nature for your perusal: From Phoebe Bosche: For those who...