Cascadia Poetry Festival Update

We are in the final stages of preparation for next weekend’s Cascadia Poetry Festival, which is shaping up to be quite the amazing event, and we’d like to thank you  all for your support as Paul and I await our own amazing event: the birth of our daughter...

Living Room Feb 7, 2012, 7pm: Free Association

This week  in the Living Room, your host Jeremy Springsteed will warm up our minds for the circle with a free association word game. Bring something to write with and on. Speaking of free association: Have you purchased your pass to the Cascadia Poetry Festival yet?...

Living Room, Tuesday Jan 24, 2012 7P

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...

Living Room January 17th: Body/Image

For Walt Whitman, body-consciousness seemed to propel the poet beyond anything as simple as “interest” in the physiological processes of the body in health. The 1855 versions of “Song of Myself,” “The Sleepers,” and “I Sing...

June 14 Living Room with Jeanne Morel

We’ll invite ourselves to play with words by moving the words of another poet around on paper. We’ll think about the words that commonly show up in our work, and how we can pull them from one poem to make a thread to begin something new, maybe something similar— maybe...