We know how it is. It’s cold. All you want to do on a Tuesday night is get under a blanket and drink hot tea. Well, let me tell you…It’s warm and toasty in the SPLAB Living Room! Columbia City Cinema’s 2nd floor lounge space is cozy and bright, with the kind of well-worn sofas that invite you to take a load off and share some hot writing on a cold night.
December 15th is our last Tuesday gathering until February. Yep, even SPLAB takes a winter break. So come on out and give us a good holiday send-off this Tuesday! Bring a piece of writing by you or someone else to share with the group. We look forward to a fun night before we all rush off to our respective family obligations.
Spring 2010 is going to be busy! We’ve got Michael McClure coming to town and the Allen Ginsberg Memorial Poetry Marathon happening too. Watch the SPLAB blog for all the latest. See you Tuesday!
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.
