by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2011 | Blog
A shakeup is essential for the purposes of transformation (Vladimir Mayakovsky). The process of training your ear to capture the chaotic energy of the moment in a poem is sometimes called organic poetry, where composition is an occasion of experience or experiment in...
by Ryukan | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog
& after 1A: The marathon will continue to buzz early into the morning via a local who spent much of his late teens studying the Beat hero. Says Greg Bem about staying up late and appreciating Ginsberg: “I acquired Howl, the movie with James Franco, and...
by Ryukan | Feb 17, 2011 | Blog
SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a talk at the NW African-American Museum. On...
by Ryukan | Feb 10, 2011 | Events
SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop at the new SPLAB location, 3651 S. Edmunds in the Cultural Corner of the former Columbia School and a talk at the NW African-American Museum. The...
by Ryukan | Feb 9, 2011 | Events
OPEN BOOKS If we don’t read one another who do we ever read and if we don’t read one another who can we expect to read us? and if we don’t read one another and if we don’t read why bother writing these lines so deep in our faces that take so...
