Tag Archives: Seattle Poetry Events

SPLAB’s Season Begins Tuesday! Living Room 7PM 9.6.11

Every step once taken in the first advance of the human race, from the amoeba to the highest type of intelligence, has been duplicated, every step exactly paralleling the one that preceded in the dead ages gone by. A perfect … Continue reading

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100 THOUSAND Poets for Change: Sept 24, 2011

100 THOUSAND Poets For Change happens at SPLAB September 24, 2011 and around the world. Cedar Sigo is our featured poet at 8P. (Main website here.) Cedar reads at 8P and facilitates a workshop from 3-6P on the San Francisco … Continue reading

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Last Living Room until September June 28 @ 7P

The 2nd SPLAB season in Columbia City (and 9th over all) ends on Tuesday, June 28 at 7PM. Your Wily Splabman facilitates and takes you on a poetry postcard journey. This August the annual Poetry Postcard Fest continues. Lana Ayers … Continue reading

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African Ideas of The Word (Living Room Tuesday 6.21.11, 7P)

What do onomatopoeia, scat singing, synethesia, word-as-image, l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e poetry, the Dogon idea of “Mu” (via Nathaniel Mackey) and its connection to Charles Olson’s idea of “pre-utterance,” and ancient occult ideas of “nyama” and “heka,” all have in common? Something, I … Continue reading

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