Join us at SPLAB, Wednesday, September 21st at 7:30 for a reading of one visiting poet (New Orleans) and one recently transplanted poet who has become very active in the local literary scene.

David Rowe

Verna Press, in New Orleans is touring the West Coast with the poet David Rowe to promote his collection, ‘Unsolicited Poems,’ and to gather submissions for an upcoming edition of ‘Dorado,’ a letterpress lit magazine that Verna Press produces.
http://www.vernapress.com

At 33, Alex Bleecker may well be the youngest retired New York City public school poetry teacher vested in the pension fund.

Alex O Bleecker

He spent most of 2010 in Dharamsala, India writing thinly veiled pro-Tibetan independence propaganda for The Tibet Post International (an online newspaper-in-exile), and being the falangster of love in southeast Asia. His first poetry chapbook Found in a Cord was published by Poets Wear Prada Press in 2006, and he is a regular contributor to Uphook Press anthologies. He is one of three facilitators of the Breadline reading series on Capitol Hill and is a SPLAB Living Room facilitator.

A native of Worcester, Mass., David Rowe was educated at Swarthmore. His poems have appeared in the Cortland Review, the North American Review, Big Bridge, Dorado, Solid Quarter, Exquisite Corpse, YAWP, & in the anthology, the Maple Leaf Rag. A poet equally of the stage & the page, David has read his poetry on the Moe Green Poetry Show & WWOZ, & at countless venues both in the States & abroad.

Locally, David has been for many years a stalwart presence at the Maple Leaf & Goldmine readings, helped represent New Orleans when Wave Books’ Poetry Bus Tour (2006) & S.A. Griffin’s Poetry Bomb Tour (2010) hit town, served as poet-in-residence at Peter Anderson’s Beauty Shop, & currently teaches poetry writing at the Covenant House, a shelter for homeless youths. His full-length collection, Unsolicited Poems, is available at http://www.vernapress.com.

Suggested donation for the evening is $5 to help SPLAB continue its work and give the touring poet a little cash for gas.

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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