by Ryukan | Sep 10, 2011 | Blog
In the 1880’s Nietzsche declared, God is Dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Atheists would argue God was never alive to begin with. Religious fundamentalists disagree. But for the large majority of us – Agnostics, freethinkers, lapsed…whatevers –...
by Ryukan | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog
The 2nd SPLAB season in Columbia City (and 9th over all) ends on Tuesday, June 28 at 7PM. Your Wily Splabman facilitates and takes you on a poetry postcard journey. This August the annual Poetry Postcard Fest continues. Lana Ayers and I started this in 2007 and more...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Events
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...
by Ryukan | May 6, 2011 | Blog
This week in the Living Room, Meredith A. Nelson hosts. We’ll kick off the night with a few exercises to get your blood flowing. No leotard required, just pen and paper. Afterwards, we’ll share our work, listen, offer critique and enjoy the usual circle...
by Ryukan | Apr 19, 2011 | Events
Apocalypticism Now? In a recent Chicago Review essay, Peter O’Leary attempts to trace a “way forward” between traditional workshop poetry and Language poetry, both of which have become academically institutionalized. He draws the right lineage, but...
