by Ryukan | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog
We’re down to two last Living Room writer’s critique circle sessions in Columbia City. Early returns on the outreach we’re doing suggests that, while the current SPLAB is a lovely and intimate space, it is out of the way for most people who would...
by Ryukan | Apr 5, 2012 | Blog
The Strangeness of Repetition “It is very like a frog hopping he cannot ever hop exactly the same distance of the same way of hopping at every hop. A bird’s singing is perhaps the nearest thing to repetition but if you listen they too vary their insistence.” —Gertrude...
by Ryukan | 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 Ryukan | Jan 19, 2012 | Blog
It was a phrase used by C.A. Conrad when he visited Seattle and did a reading at SPLAB. He said he loved being part of our City of Poets. Our current Board President, Eze Anamalechi likes the idea of a Poetic Commons. Another Board Member, Joe Chiveney, suggests we...
by Ryukan | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula —from “Ursonate” by Kurt Schwitters One thing that seems to distinguish poems from prose is sound. I hope for us to consider the relationship of primal sound to the...
