Want to spend a couple of hours on Lake Union in the company of savvy writers? Looking for intelligent critique of your work—whether poetry, fiction or something in between? Join the Poetilla, a writers’ round table on the water.
Next Tuesday at 6:30 pm—rain or shine—we’ll depart [...]
We’re down to two last Living Room writer’s critique circle sessions in Columbia City. Early returns on the outreach we’re doing suggests that, while the current SPLAB is a lovely and intimate space, it is out of the way for most people who would attend SPLAB events so, barring a miracle of collective action, the [...]
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 [...]
Abecedarians & Other Constraints
This week we’ll take on the notion of the abecedarian and combine it with a page or two from a reference book containing an alphabetical listing of words–the dictionary.
From early Hebrew poetry to Harryette Mullen, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edward Lear, the abecedarian in an ancient poetic form that has [...]
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