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Washington State Poetry Questionnaire (From the new Poet Laureate)

Splabman — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:57:32 +0000

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 [...]

Never Not Making It New: The Poet’s Always Work (Living Room Tue 2/21)

Splabman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:00:58 +0000

“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 [...]

Puget SOUND Poetry

Splabman — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:22:33 +0000

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 [...]

What do you Love? (2.14.12 Living Room)

Splabman — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:41 +0000

To paraphrase Bo Diddley:

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it’s a-made out of rattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it’s a-made out of human skull

Living Room Feb 7, 2012, 7pm: Free Association

Meredith — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:51:35 +0000

This week in the Living Room, your host Jeremy Springsteed will warm up our minds for the circle with a free association word game. Bring something to write with and on.

Speaking of free association: Have you purchased your pass to the Cascadia Poetry Festival yet? More on Johnny here.

Coast Salish songs and stories are featured, along with prayers and [...]

SPLACtory and other Collective Ideas

Splabman — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:18:37 +0000

A large group of poets committed to seeing SPLAB continue as a Collective came out for the 1.31.12 Living Room. Paul Nelson facilitated and, after announcements and introductions, read Paul Hunter’s

Open Books

If we don’t read one another
who do we ever read
and if we don’t read one another
who [...]

City of Poets Jan 31, 2012 7P

Splabman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:22:24 +0000

We’re turning SPLAB over to a collective, a poetic commons, a City of Poets. With the exception of two dates in the Fall, the 2012/2013 SPLAB season is yours to design. It requires a commitment, but that’s to be determined. We want to stick with writers and our bias is poets. We want folks who [...]

New Hugo House E.D.

Splabman — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:15:12 +0000

Tree Swenson is new Executive Director at
Richard Hugo House
A letter from John Burgess, RHH Board President

Hello,

I have exciting news to share with you. Richard Hugo House has hired a new Executive Director—Tree Swenson.

Tree brings to Hugo House an incredible wealth of nonprofit literary arts leadership experience. Since 2002, [...]

Living Room, Tuesday Jan 24, 2012 7P

Splabman — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:02:09 +0000

Nadine a Maestas

“Emerge this is not yet thinking”

—from Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments

In this Living Room session, Nadine Maestas would like us to consider the concept of writing poems that are derived from experimental procedures. Examples will include the Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Mathews & Alistair Brotchie, the American poet [...]