by Splabman | Aug 11, 2012 | Blog
Invitation to Poetilla 5 Want to spend a couple of hours on Lake Union in the company of savvy writers? Looking for intelligent critique of your work—whether poetry, fiction or something in between? Join the Poetilla, a writers’ round table on the water. Next Tuesday...
by Splabman | 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 Splabman | May 11, 2012 | Blog
Paranomasia has nothing to do with a lack of ghosts. Rather, it comes from Greek, meaning word-shunting, and refers to the deliberate exploitation of words to achieve multiple meanings, ambiguities, humor, etc. (i.e., punning; i.e. cummings) — a way of...
by Splabman | Feb 24, 2012 | Blog
Abecedarians & Other Constraints This week we’ll take on the notion of the abecedarian and combine it with a page or two from a reference book containing an alphabetical listing of words–the dictionary. From early Hebrew poetry to Harryette Mullen,...
by Splabman | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog
To paraphrase Bo Diddley: I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie A brand new house on the road side, and it’s a-made out of rattlesnake hide Got a band new chimney put on top, and it’s a-made out of human skull Come on...
