Interview with Greg Bem on this event here.
FINE & HEAVY, ARTS & ARTISANS! GUEST ARTISTS AND ARTISANS! LIVE MUSIC! FOOD, LIBATIONS, FESTIVITIES! FORKLIFT POETRY : 6 PM : FORKLIFT STAGE Kim Ionesco, Deborah Henry, Richard Lemmert, Greg Bem, M. Anne Sweet, emcee NIGHTSHIFT POETRY : 8 PM : UPSTAIRS Sasha Goodwin, Alex O. Bleecker, Paul Nelson, Jack Remick, M. Anne Sweet, emcee Come one, come all! Saturday, December 11! equinoxstudios.org
Saturday December 12th, 6-9pm, 6555 5th Avenue South, Seattle, 98108. (One block south of Michigan Street). Equinox Studios is Georgetown’s largest arts venue, with over 45 artists and artisans of all disciplines creating masterful works in a 30,000 square foot industrial building in the southwest corner of this historic neighborhood.
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.
