I just had to come up with something special for a SPLAB meeting on 1/11/11. Sharpen your pencils and bring some paper boys & girls. I am going to open up the evening with a quick 15 minute writing exercise to keep the juices flowing. It’s a good way to shake things up, and who knows–you might just end up with a complete piece or a good start to something you want to keep working on. Afterwards, we’ll read and critique each other’s work as usual.
Don’t forget, just two weeks to go until our first raffle drawing of the New Year. As usual, we’ve got some super cool prizes, and there will be three winners. YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN on January 25th, and you get one entry for every $5 you donate to SPLAB. Donations to this month’s raffle include goodies ranging from movie passes to Full Tilt Ice Cream and more! Remember, YOUR donations help us keep the doors open and maintain a vibrant literary arts scene in the heart of Columbia City.
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.
Location? time? Please let me know asap. Thanks!!
SPLAB, 7P. We’re in for former Columbia School. Enter on Edmunds, west of Rainier and about three blocks east of King (& the Link Light Rail Station). We hope to see you.
Paul