2011-2012 SPLAB Schedule

(events subject to change. All events Living Room unless otherwise noted.)

Tue 15-May-2012 Alex Bleecker – Paronomasia
Tue 22-May-2012 Anthony Warnke –
Tue 29-May-2012 Graham Isaac - 

Sat 2-Jun-2012 A.G. Marathon Various emcees

Tue 5-Jun-2012 Meredith Nelson –
Tue 12-Jun-2012 Joe Chiveney –
Tue 19-Jun-2012 Nadine Maestas –

Tue 26-Jun-2012 T.B.A.

Tue 6-Sep-2011 Paul Nelson How did you spend your summer vacation?
Tue 13-Sep-2011 Alex Bleecker The Present Absence

Sat 17-Sep-2011 Nico Vassilakis and Mickey O’Connor matinee reading 3:30P (Audio of Nico’s reading is here. Mickey’s here.)

Tue 20-Sep-2011 Paul Nelson – Guest Poet: David Rowe of Verna Press

Sat 24-Sep-2011 Cedar Sigo 100 THOUSAND Poets for Change, Carolyne Wright, Paul Nelson, Judith Roche, emcees

Tue 27-Sep-2011 Jeanne Morel – Zuihitisu
Tue 4-Oct-2011 Anthony Warnke – Poetry of Place (98118)
Fri 6-Oct-2011 Red Cedar Circle with Johnny Moses
Tue 11-Oct-2011 Graham Isaac – More PLACE in the Living Room.
Tue 18-Oct-2011 Meredith Nelson – Pop Culture in Poetry
Tue 25-Oct-2011 Joe Chiveney – B.Y.O.D.
Tue 1-Nov-2011 Scot Brannon – The Uncanny

Fri 4-Nov-2011 – Red Cedar Circle with Johnny Moses.
Tue 8-Nov-2011 – Nadine Maestas – Primal Sound
Fri, Sat 11,12-Nov-2011 Brenda Hillman Paul Nelson, emcee
Tue 15-Nov-2011 Paul Nelson – Happy Birthday Ted Berrigan (Guest: Chuck Pirtle)
Tue 22-Nov-2011 Jeremy Springsteed – Thanks or Genocide?
Tue 29-Nov-2011 Alex Bleecker – Critique
Tue 6-Dec-2011 Jeanne Morel – Erasure
Fri 9-Dec-2011 – Red Cedar Circle with Johnny Moses.
Tue 13-Dec-2011 Anthony Warnke – Prose Poem
Tue 20-Dec-2011 – Scot Brannon – Fortified Poetry

BREAK

2012

Tue 3-Jan-2012 Graham Isaac
Tue 10-Jan-2012 Joe Chiveney – Archetypes
Fri 13-Jan-2012 – Red Cedar Circle with Johnny Moses.
Tue 17-Jan-2012 – Meredith Nelson – Body Image
Tue 24-Jan-2012 Nadine Maestas – “Emerge this is not yet thinking.”
Tue 31-Jan-2012 – Paul Nelson SPLAB as Collective/Cascadia Organizing. Bring a short poem to share. No critique.
Be prepared to discuss how you see SPLAB in the future and what you see as your role.
Tue 7-Feb-2012 Jeremy Springsteed – Free Association
Tue 14-Feb-2012 Paul Nelson – Who (or What) do you love?
Tue 21-Feb-2012 Alex Bleecker – Never Not Making It New
Tue 28-Feb-2012 Jeanne Morel – Abecedarians
Tue 6-Mar-2012 Anthony Warnke – I Love This Poem Because ______
Tue 13-Mar-2012 – Scot Brannon - PoetryExtraction
Tue 20-Mar-2012 Graham Isaac - Prose Poetry
23-25-Mar-2012 -  Cascadia Poetry 98118 Festival Various
Tue 27-Mar-2012 Paul Nelson – Cascadia Afterthoughts
Tue 3-Apr-2012 Joe Chiveney – Synesthesia
Tue 10-Apr-2012 Nadine Maestas – Repetition
Tue 17-Apr-2012  Jeanine Walker – An Average Day in the City
Tue 24-Apr-2012 Jeremy Springsteed – Text Corpse
Tue 1-May-2012 Paul Nelson – Good Haibun/Bad Haibun
Tue 8-May-2012 Jeanne Morel - Writing Alongside Kim Hyesoon

Read this post for information on the 2010/2011 season of Living Room. Read this post for a wrapup on the 2009/2010 season, SPLAB’s first in Columbia City.