The Cascadia Poetry Festival (March 24-25, 2012, at SPLAB) seeks to examine the culture of this region by gathering poets from the California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, the Alaska panhandle and Western Montana at SPLAB, to learn, share ideas and techniques, begin to discover the qualities of this bioregion and the possibilities for deeper [...]
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at 7PM SPLAB invites all poets, writers and fans of writing to attend an Open Board Meeting to discuss the future of SPLAB as a collective. Our lease at the Columbia School is set to expire at the end of August 2013, but could end sooner and could be extended. [...]
We’re turning SPLAB over to a collective, a poetic commons, a City of Poets. With the exception of two dates in the Fall, the 2012/2013 SPLAB season is yours to design. It requires a commitment, but that’s to be determined. We want to stick with writers and our bias is poets. We want folks who [...]
Tree Swenson is new Executive Director at
Richard Hugo House
A letter from John Burgess, RHH Board President
Hello,
I have exciting news to share with you. Richard Hugo House has hired a new Executive Director—Tree Swenson.
Tree brings to Hugo House an incredible wealth of nonprofit literary arts leadership experience. Since 2002, [...]
“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 Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Mathews & Alistair Brotchie, the American poet [...]
It was a phrase used by C.A. Conrad when he visited Seattle and did a reading at SPLAB. He said he loved being part of our City of Poets. Our current Board President, Eze Anamalechi likes the idea of a Poetic Commons.
Another Board Member, Joe Chiveney, suggests we have Saturday workshops where the critique [...]
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