SPLAB Visiting Poets Series 2010-2011
On March 11 and 12, 2011, SPLAB welcomes legendary poet, essayist, novelist and editor Nathaniel Mackey to Columbia City for a reading, workshop and talk. Location and details TBA. Sponsored by 4Culture, Poets and Writers and WESTAF. Nate’s bio below. Location TBA.
We know. It’s been a busy summer, But it’s not too early to start thinking about Living Room, resuming in October for SPLAB’s 2010-2011 season. Keep watching the site for exciting news about a new home for SPLAB in Columbia City, and get ready to share your new writing October 26th!
Great story about poets feeling an urgency to do something in response to the BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.
A telling paragraph in the article is this one:
King and Staples modeled their group after Poets Against War, a popular Web site established in January 2003 that solicits and anthologizes poems protesting war, though Staples and King wanted Poets for Living Waters to be “for” something, rather than “against.” Yet “people are sending in a lot of work reflecting anger and grief about what’s happened,” Staples says. Even so, the two poets believe such emotion is simply part of the process of mobilizing the community.
The whole article from the Poets & Writer’s website is here: http://www.pw.org/content/poets_act_on_oil_spill
A great primer to innovative Canadian poetry with Big Daddy George Bowering. It includes great testimonials from some of George’s friends and this list:
What makes a poet a poet?
1. Insatiable curiosity about the facts.
2. An ear that likes what words do other than designate.
3. A desire to continue the work.
4. A lot of skepticism.
5. A love for oneself as a stranger to oneself.
6. A highly competitive ego-loss.
7. Compassion on the part of one of the nine muses.
8. The inability to leave the house without a book in hand.
9. A record of failing one class in high school.
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