LiTFUSE: Poets’ Workshop
10.8.10 – 10.10.10
www.litfuse.us
LiTFUSE will be InFUSED with the wisdom & humor of the 2010 FaCULTy: AK Mimi Allin, guerilla poet of Green Lake; Lawson Fuseo Inada, Poet Laureate of Oregon; Paul Nelson, author of A Time Before Slaughter; Tara Hardy, 2-Time Seattle Slam Champ; Leonard Orr, author of Why We Have Evening, among other books; Lorraine Healy, author of The Habit of Buenos Aires, among other books; Lyn Coffin, author, translator, playwright and actor; Carol Trenga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, Yoga & Meditation; Alan Sutherland, Butoh dancer; Mitsuki Dazai, koto player. For more information on the 2010 LiTFUSE Faculty, please CLiCK HERE.
TO REGISTER FOR 2010 LiTFUSE, please CLiCK HERE!
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.
