Take your feet off the sofa, we have a guest coming to Living Room, Tuesday, March 23rd at 7P. He’ll start by discussing his method and reading a few poems, but you’re welcome to join the dialog and read some of your own writing. Suggested donation $3-$10. The guest?
William Scott Galasso is the author of twelve books of poetry,
including Sea, Mist and Sitka Spruce, published in Nov. 2009.
He’s won numerous awards and his work has appeared in over
140 journals and magazines in Europe, Japan, New Zealand,
Australia, Canada and the U.S. In March, 2008 he was a featured
reader for the PoetsWest poetry series on KSER 90.7 FM in
Everett, WA. His next book Collage (New and Selected Poems)
is out out soon, if not already.
More on Living Room here.
About Splabman
Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
