by Ryukan | Jun 5, 2012 | Blog
Bring your digital camera or smartphone w/camera to this Living Room! Your host Meredith Nelson is going to take you on a little meander inside and out and we’re going to do a writing exercise from what we discover. Regular critique circle follows. Writers of...
by Ryukan | May 1, 2012 | Blog
The moving dot can be extinguished in an instant, yet it contains all information, even eternity. Try placing a dot on the undulating waves. The moment I extend my arm, the dot is already gone. —from the essay “In the Oxymoronic World” by Kim Hyesoon, translated...
by Ryukan | Apr 24, 2012 | Blog
We’ll celebrate Mayday by working on an ancient Japanese form that’s gained steam since Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder started their experiments in the 50s. We’ll look at Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling’s more contemporary approaches and Sam...
by Ryukan | Apr 17, 2012 | Blog
Text Corpse Exquisite Corpse- a French Surrealist game in which a poem is passed around and participants add the lines with limited knowledge of what was previously written. Text message- brief communication between two mobile devices. We will be combining these two...
by Ryukan | Mar 26, 2012 | Blog
We’re still recovering from the very successful Cascadia Poetry Festival which SPLAB conceived of and hosted this past weekend. This week in the Living Room we’ll share our best memories of the just-concluded fest, discuss plans for future iterations and...
