Jack Remick Headlining the Ginsberg Marathon
The beautiful posters by Tessa Hulls are getting out there and local Beat fans are digging through dog-eared copies of Ginsberg’s Collected, Mexico City Blues, Ghost Tantras and other Beat books and Jack Remick is likely figuring out how to handle his feature. Jack kicks off the 12th Allen Ginsberg Open Mic Poetry Marathon, Saturday, June 1 at 8P at Spring Street Center, 15th & Spring in Seattle. Come to read Beat poetry or prose, come to read your own Beat-inspired work or come just to be in the company of other poets and Beat Poetry fans. Suggested donation $5, benefits SPLAB programs.
Jack Remick’s work: Valley Boy is Book Two of
a series, The California Quartet. More volumes will be released by Coffeetown Press in 2013: Revolution and The Dirt Liberal.The first book of the series, The Deification, was released in December of 2011. Blood, A Novel was published by Camel Press in 2011.
Ginsberg Open Mic Poetry Marathon
Saturday, June 1, 2013 – 8P – ?
Spring Street Center
1101 15th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
$5.00
Sponsor: SICA
SICA works at the intersection of
creativity and spirituality to advance
and celebrate activities that grow out of
the development of the human soul.
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.
