Nico Vassilakis has been active in Seattle’s literary community for 20 
years. His recent work includes co-editing The Last Vispo: Visual Poetry Anthology 1998-2008 forthcoming from Fantagraphics Books in Fall 2012. Mickey O’Connor is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent entitled Pushkin’s Umbrella. He has been a poet for many years, written thousands of lines of poetry, hundreds of poems & given poetry readings at numerous venues in the USA. He lives & writes in Seattle. The reading is a rare SPLAB matinee, Saturday, September 17 at 3:30PM. Suggested donation $5.
SPLAB Location: 3651 S. Edmunds, Seattle, WA 98118, in the Columbia Cultural Corner (the former Columbia School). Enter from Edmunds. Off street parking is available and we’re three blocks from the Link Light Rail stop in Columbia City.
Audio of Nico here. Audio of Mickey 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.
Nico Vassilakis has been active in Seattle’s literary community for 20 
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