From Wave Books (National Poetry Month)

Hello Dear Friends & Neighbors,

In honor of National Poetry Month, Wave Books is working with the Henry Art Gallery to bring poetry into the daily life of the Henry. Throughout the month of April, the Henry is featuring audio and text installations, limited-edition postcards, and an Emotional Tour of the Henry, all created by the poets of local poetry press, Wave Books. In addition, each Saturday of the month is featuring a Poet-in-Residence, four Northwest-based poets working publicly among the artwork; see schedule below.
For complete information, visit the Henry Art Gallery website here: http://henryart.org/events/program/28
Featured on each Saturday of the month are the following Poets-in-Residence:
Saturday, April 3: Evelyn Hamptonhttp://henryart.org/events/show/232
Saturday, April 10: Don Mee Choihttp://henryart.org/events/show/231
Saturday, April 17: Howard Robertsonhttp://henryart.org/events/show/234
Saturday, April 24: Karena Youtzhttp://henryart.org/events/show/235

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.
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