Tuesday, October 13 7-9pm Free
Dreams, Travelogs & Artist Books: a talk, reading and mini-trunk show
by poet Marilyn Stablein
A June 2015 interview she did with Paul Nelson can be heard here.
A newspaper article from Sept 15 is here.
Marilyn Stablein is an award-winning poet, essayist, artist, and author of 13 books. Splitting Hard Ground: Poems, won the New Mexico Book Award. Her essay collections include Climate of Extremes: Landscape and Imagination, eco-essays set in the northwest and Sleeping in Caves: A Himalayan Memoir.
She will read short excerpts from her work and introduce her new book Bind, Alter, Fold: Artist Books which features 38 of her handmade artist books.
She will also have a mini-trunk show display of some of her artist books.
Cascadia House
27626 Vashon Hwy SW Vashon Island
phone (206) 660-8056
http://www.marilynstablein.com/
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.