Three guys who met at SPLAB in late 2010 started an open mic and have made it one of the most successful new literary events in Seattle. This is from them:
so come out and celebrate our borderline toddlerhood! features include poets/academics, sound artists, and a command performance by everyone’s favorite house molecular biologist. prepare your cells for realignment – it’s gonna be a breadline, and by now you all know what that feels like…
featuring:
maged zaher
nadine maestas
andrew prendergast
air jackson
The Breadline
wed, jan 18, 7p
vermillion art gallery & bar
1508 eleventh ave (pike/pine)
all ages, no cover
+open mic
breadlinepoetry.wordpress.com
-A,J,G
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.
