June 14 Living Room with Jeanne Morel

We’ll invite ourselves to play with words by moving the words of another poet around on paper. We’ll think about the words that commonly show up in our work, and how we can pull them from one poem to make a thread to begin something new, maybe something similar— maybe something completely different.
If you are inclined, bring a list of words from one or two of your own poems, or bring a list of words that belong in your next poem.
Also bring anything else you would like to workshop. Jeanne Morel facilitates.

Writers of all ages and skill levels gather Tuesdays at 7P to read new work, the work of someone else or to just be in the engaging company of other writers. Your donation of $5 helps SPLAB put on special events and continue programming. Please bring 8 copies of the work you plan to read. If you do not bring copies, they are available for 10c.

Living Room happens in the new SPLAB in the Cultural Corner of the old Columbia School, between Rainier AV S and 36th AV S, on Edmunds. We’re 2 blocks from the Columbia City Link Light Rail Station. Parking is available on the school grounds.)

Our season ends June 28.

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June 20 Prose Reading @ SPLAB

We’re sad to see the demise of Pilot Books, a tiny store on Capitol Hill, but energetic supporter of innovative writing. On Monday, June 20 at 7:30 PM, SPLAB welcomes two writers who had planned to read at Pilot move to our friendly neighborhood SPLAB:

Amelia Gray is the author of AM/PM (Featherproof Books) and Museum of the Weird (FC2). Her first novel, THREATS, is due Winter 2012 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Matthew Simmons lives in Seattle with his cat, Emmett. He is the author of A JELLO HORSE (2009, Publishing Genius Press) and THE MOON TONIGHT FEELS MY REVENGE (2010, Keyhole Press). More things about him can be discovered at themanwhocouldntblog.blogspot.com.

Suggested Donation: $5.00. Come hear what innovative prose writers are up to Monday, June 20 in one of our last events before our summer break.

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Pageboy Magazine Release Party, 6.4.11 8P Arabica

From Thomas Walton,

Greetings!
PageBoy has proofs, and the proof is in the, uh, printer. Issue III 11 will be out and all over everywhere soon – like pudding I guess. If you want to see the magazine FIRST, join us at Arabica (Capitol Hill, Seattle) on Sat. June 4th at 8pm. We will be celebrating with readers Erika Wilder, Sarah Erickson, Paul Nelson, and Sarah Galvin. Shannon Perry will be showing her (amazing) watercolor portraits (featured in the magazine), and Myriad Minions will be performing LIVE NUDE MUSIC!

Check the blog (http://pageboymagazine.blogspot.com) for more information re this and re that (and to find out what a Shklovsky looks like!)

-Thomas Walton (ed period)

P.S. Try to get a copy of the last edition of Pageboy, which has a HUGE helping of Amalio Madueno’s work.

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From Carletta Wilson

Hi,

Hope you can stop by to partake of the landscape, installations and artwork at the Washington Studio and Gardens.
Washington House and Studio
1816 26th Avenue
Directions
At 26th & Union go 5 blocks north. Residence is on east side of the street.
Look for a red fence.  Take the path on the left side of the house to studio and gardens.
Preview                      10AM-2PM   Mon-Wed,     May 23-25
Reception                    6PM           Thursday,      May 26
Artist Walk & Talk        2PM           Saturday       May 28
May begins in celebration of mothers and mothering and ends in honoring the memory of those who lost their lives in war. Most notably, Memorial Day was born out of the embers of the Civil War.  This year, across the country,  observances of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War are taking place.

Poem of Stone and Bone: Make Her of Mystery is a work of celebration and remembrance. My residency at the James W. Washington House and Studio has provided a foundation and font for work that draws upon these elements.  Mr. Washington’s studio and garden provide the perfect setting. I hope to see you there.
Best regards,

Carletta
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