Want intelligent feedback on your writing, or a critique on a poem or bit of prose? Join us for SPLAB’s acclaimed writer’s critique circle, Living Room.
Writers of all ages and skill levels gather in the 2nd floor lounge of the Columbia City Cinema, at 4816 Rainier AV S, Tuesdays at 7P to read new work, the work of someone else or to just be in the engaging company of other writers. You suggested donation of 3-$10 helps SPLAB put on special events and expand programming.
Starting Tuesday, October 27 and running each Tuesday until December 15th and again every Tuesday night in February through the end of May, it’s Living Room. Writers are encouraged to continue the dialog during the week at this here website.
Our thanks go to Paul Doyle and the Columbia City Cinema.
About Splabman
Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
