Beloved Oregon poet Bill Shively died on Sunday, September 28th.
Information for the Bill Shively Memorial.
We will celebrate the life and spirit of our friend Bill Shively and help to send his soul to the next dimension.
Saturday, October 25
4:00-7:00 PM
Spring Street Center
Reception Hall (Downstairs)
1101 15th (corner of 15th & Spring)
Seattle, WA 98122
Please bring poems, photos and stories to share and a bottle or 2 to drink and some snacks or finger food to eat or just show up.
Any questions or offers to help, call Charlie at 206-380-1288
Please pass this on to others that knew and loved Bill.
We are sorry if you cannot make this date. Dan Raphael will be holding an event for Bill in Portland in mid-November and that information will be posted here when firmed up.
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.
