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ANNOUNCING THE BIG BRIDGE 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

Splabman — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:51:53 +0000

From Michael Rothenberg:

www.bigbridge.org

Dear Big Bridge Friends,

We are pleased to announce the BIG BRIDGE 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! For 15 years Big Bridge has worked hard to present our readers with a wide and varied selection of poetry, fiction, art, essays, and more. And through this work we [...]

SPLAB Living Room for Tuesday, May 15: No Lack of Ghosts 7P

Splabman — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:29:28 +0000

Paranomasia has nothing to do with a lack of ghosts. Rather, it comes from Greek, meaning word-shunting, and refers to the deliberate exploitation of words to achieve multiple meanings, ambiguities, humor, etc. (i.e., punning; i.e. cummings) — a way of subverting the dictionary’s prescription of a word to open it’s field for play. Such [...]

Art Space, Mt. Baker Station Artist Housing

Splabman — Tue, 08 May 2012 05:53:15 +0000

In what may be their best Seattle project yet, Art Space unveiled their latest plans tonight:

Artspace Mt. Baker Station Lofts, Artspace’s third project in Seattle, will be a mixed-use arts facility containing 57 rental units of affordable live/work space for artists and their families. Located adjacent to the Mt. [...]

Writing Alongside Kim Hyesoon (Living Room May 8 – 7P)

Splabman — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:00:40 +0000

The moving dot can be extinguished in an instant, yet it contains all information, even eternity. Try placing a dot on the undulating waves. The moment I extend my arm, the dot is already gone. —from the essay “In the Oxymoronic World” by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi

This Tuesday [...]

Poets against Domestic Violence

Splabman — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:58:04 +0000

(From Doug Johnson of Cave Moon Press)

April 30, 2012

Dear Poet:

In 2011 we produced the anthology entitled Broken Circles to benefit hunger. The strategy was simple and it succeeded in helping local food banks from San Francisco to New York. Poets were charged with [...]

Good Haibun/Bad Haibun Mayday Living Room

Splabman — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:14:17 +0000

We’ll celebrate Mayday by working on an ancient Japanese form that’s gained steam since Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder started their experiments in the 50s. We’ll look at Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling’s more contemporary approaches and Sam Hamill’s translations and thoughts on this combination of prose and poetry. A couple of bad ones will [...]

Living Room Tuesday, April 24 Text Corpse (7p)

Splabman — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:00:34 +0000

Text Corpse

Exquisite Corpse- a French Surrealist game in which a poem is passed around and participants add the lines with limited knowledge of what was previously written.

Text message- brief communication between two mobile devices.

We will be combining these two things. A prompt will be texted to everyone and then we will build [...]

Diane diPrima Very Ill

Splabman — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:38:36 +0000

Michael McClure wrote:

Diane is suffering with several painful and even
life-threatening illnesses, including removal of all teeth, arthritis
from her earlier back operation, extreme problems with glaucoma and a
needed operation; but that’s just the top of the list. Despite all, she
is in [...]

Tuesday April 17 An Average Day in the City Living Room Jaunt 7P

Splabman — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:00:56 +0000

An average day in the city: on the bus, a child mothers a crying parent; a homeless woman peers into the window of a toyshop; a statue in the park seems it has something to say. Beauty lies in the midst of such incongruities, and in those incongruities, poems are poised, waiting for us to [...]

100 Thousand Poets for Change

Splabman — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:18:22 +0000

SPLAB was part of the inaugural event last September and may very well participate again. They are not looking for a lot of money and have wonderful rewards. Please consider a donation.