Hi Paul—will you consider filling this out and sending it to your connections? Thanks! Kathleen (P.S. The state’s new Poet Laureate will read at the Cascadia Poetry festival on March 25. Details here.)
WASHINGTON STATE POETRY QUESTIONNAIRE
My goal as 2012 – 2014 Poet Laureate is to broaden the audience for poetry in [...]
“Words can neither define nor explain” -Alan Watts
It is not news that the world is in a constant state of flux (just ask the Fluxus poets, or Siddhartha Gautama). Ever-evolving, it parallels life itself; the only thing absolute is amorphousness. In his seminal text The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951), English theologian and [...]
Nico Vassilakis is curating a night of Sound Poetry, Friday, March 23, 2012 starting at 10P at the Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Av S, as a prelude to the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Sound poetry will come between sets of music, artist TBA.
Sound poetry is a primarily early 20th century invention merging new typographic [...]
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