The Last Vispo Anthology
On Saturday, November 24 at 6:00 PM, there’s a book launch party for “The Last Vispo Anthology,” edited by
Crag y Nico
Nico Vassilakis & Crag Hill.
Fantagraphics Bookstore
1201 South Vale Street
(Downtown Georgetown)
The evening features readings by Crag Hill (Idaho), James Yeary (Portland), Gustave Morin (Windsor), Donato Mancini (Vancouver), Joseph Keppler (Seattle), Robert Mittenthal (Seattle), and Nico Vassilakis (Seattle). We’ll also have music by Lori Goldsten (former Earth and Nirvana cellist), joined by former Black Cat Orchestra bandmate Kyle Hanson.
Besides the book launch, in case you didn’t know, Crystal and I are moving from Seattle and this will be a Bon voyage/last hurrah before we split. It’s also Crystal’s birthday! We’d love to see you, be with you all, as we’ll miss the hell outta y’all. Come check out us newlyweds before we hit NYC.
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.
