Six Week Organic Poetry workshop Hugo House

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...

Pacific Rim Poetrics Workshop Hugo House

Pacific Rim Poetics What does it mean to be a West Coast poet? Or to broaden the view, a Pacific Rim poet? In this course, we will look at some of the distinctions that make up the poetics of our region and beyond, from the haibun of Basho to the list poems of Sei...

Hugo House Workshop Registration

Pacific Rim Poetics is the Hugo House workshop offering from Your Wily Splabman starting in late January. See THIS from the Hugo House and please consider taking the 6 week Pacific Rim Poetics course. & remember, there’s a preview this Saturday at SPLAB from...

Write-O-Rama @ Hugo House

This is a fundraiser for the Richard Hugo House that happens twice a year. We’re lucky to have such a vibrant writer’s center in our town, so please consider spending the day @ RHH. There will be two morning glimpses at Pacific Rim Poetics, but MANY other...

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...