SPLAB was founded in Auburn, Washington, December 14, 1993. (For pre-Feb 16, 2020 mission, see this statement.)
The Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB) works to reestablish poetry as a method for knowing self & place by engaging poets, writers and artists bioregionally in Cascadia to build community through shared experience of the spoken & written word.
SPLAB supports:
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- Poetry as a noetic practice allied with outsider traditions.
- A poetry of witness, deeply rooted to place.
- Organic form in all of its manifestations, open, discerning and aware of/responsible to the interconnectivity of life.
- A visionary poetics that embodies our place on the edge of a continent.
SPLAB envisions 10,000 people each year participating in POPO and using those revenues to maintain operations, including administration, the Cascadia Poetry Festival and other in-person events in Seattle and the Cascadia bioregion and our ongoing interviews.
OBJECTIVES:
- Peer support for writers and artists.
- Teaching “first-take-best-take” approach to developing writing skills.
- Providing programs and content for educators to improve literacy.
IRS EIN: 91-1618296
DUNS: 83-131-9103
UBI: 601-510-184
In 2012 SPLAB began a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia. See SPLAB Founder Paul E Nelson’s presentation on that project delivered at the Cascadian Zen symposium at Seattle U, February 14, 2020.
I’d like to be involved. My main creative talents at present lie in the area of video production. In the ’70’s I was one of the founders of South End Seattle Community Organization (SESCO)and in the late ’80’s I was part of Cascadia Community Builders, a general contracting cooperative.
This is great! I’ve never seen a site quite like this… And I hope to help out a lot in the future, This is a great site for the spoken word to flourish, expand, and hopefully, make history.
Thanks Logan.