Tag Archives: Seattle Poetry Workshops

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

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Splabman

“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 … Continue reading →

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What do you Love? (2.14.12 Living Room)

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Splabman

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 … Continue reading →

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Living Room, Tuesday Jan 24, 2012 7P

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Splabman

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 … Continue reading →

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Living Room January 17th: Body/Image

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Splabman

For Walt Whitman, body-consciousness seemed to propel the poet beyond anything as simple as “interest” in the physiological processes of the body in health. The 1855 versions of “Song of Myself,” “The Sleepers,” and “I Sing the Body Electric” take … Continue reading →

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