Yesterday SPLAB moved one door east, to new corporate offices in the smaller home that Meredith, Ella and I share. While SPLAB is working on a major project associated with the Cascadia Poetry Festival, we were told the house we were renting would be going up for sale and, sure enough, it has been sold already. So mark down our new address:
SPLAB
4817 S Lucile, Apartment B
Seattle, WA 98118
206.422.5002
We’d like to thank the following SPLAB Fans for their help in hauling our sh, uh, belongings to the new place: Aaron Kokorowski, Alex Bleecker, Marston and Hadidjah Gregory, Jason and Jackie Conger, Thomas Walton, Rachel Hug and Spotter (Steve Potter). A huge thanks to Tutta Bella, which again came through with several delicious pizzas to help us reward the heavy lifters, baby sitters and organizers.
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.
It is Thanksgiving eve and a good time to thank Splab for all the wonderful words, insights, posts, poetry, laughs and effort you put into this blog. I often do not write but I almost always read and grow from SPLAB.
So sorry to hear about housing, rentals and oh the gentrification of the northwest.
Thanks to you all,’auntmama