Tag Archives: Columbia City Arts Events

Erasure: Dec 6 L v ng R m 7P

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Splabman

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. —Marvin Bell What is erasure poetry and why does Ron Silliman compare it to the play of burlesque or striptease?  Come to Living … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Ted Berrigan (Living Room Tue 11.15.11 – 7P)

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Splabman

Ted Berrigan (Nov. 15, 1934-July 4, 1983) was a master practitioner of a multiplicity of strategies for making poems, among them appropriation, collage, collaboration, misreadings and mistranslations, found poetry, and list poems. In his mix of voices and sources he … Continue reading →

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Zombie Living Room Tue 11.1.11 7P

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Splabman

The Uncanny It’s alive! Or is it? Genre writers know how to make your skin crawl. A favorite item in their toolkit: The uncanny. I don’t just mean something spooky. I mean something that seems familiar but also  strange. Think … Continue reading →

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Living Room 10.25.11 B.Y.O.D – 7P

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Splabman

Have you had an absurd or incomprehensible dream lately?  Rich subconscious secrets and great poems cleverly hide behind and between dream images.  Often the more absurd the inviting dream and its connections are, the more rich meaning resides.  It is … Continue reading →

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