C.E. Putnam
One of the most inventive NW poets lives in Singapore these days, but is coming back to the NW. (Details in his email pasted in below).
C.E. Putnam was born in Seattle and has lived in three world capitals (London, Washington DC, and Bangkok). A former co-curator of the Subtext Reading Series, he maintains P.I.S.O.R. (The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research) & founded FiftyCentsOffPress. Monkey Puzzle, Bird Dog, Pom2, Ixnay, 6ix, Pavement Saw, Tin Fish & Skanky Possum contain some of his writings. He currently lives in Seattle, but not for long. Click below to see Chris’ poems on the Rattapallax blog and to hear the interview conducted August 9, 2010 by Paul E Nelson. http://rattapallax.org/blog/tag/c-e-putnam/
From C.E.:
Hi Paul,
As you probably know, I’m going to be in town in December and am putting on a book release party on Saturday the 8th (details below). Hopefully, The Stranger will get the event posted soon. I’m wondering if you have any other suggestions for where else to send the details? Hope you can make the event.
Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving and see you soon,
CE
Back Catalog Release Party
w/special guests Interrupture doing a mash up of the back catalog!
Saturday, December 8
7:30-10:30pm
(Reading at 8pm)
ABSOLUTLY FREE. OVER 21 ONLY.
College Inn Pub (in the snuggery)
4006 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
btw/ Saturday is $4 whiskey nigh
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P.I.S.O.R (Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research)
The C.E. Putnam six book back catalog is now available!
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.
