SPLAB

Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson
Wednesday, March 17, 5-7 p.m.

Is the universe a machine based on competition, or an organism based on process, interdependence and relationship? Organic Poetry, a stance toward poem making dubbed by Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, allows the moment of composition to be an occasion of experience, an experiment in consciousness. This entertaining workshop includes discussion of poets Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure and others, sound from these poets and writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.

Classes for Teachers are free, though please RSVP to writingclassforteachers@gmail.com.

http://hugohouse.org/content/classes-teachers

Event: Red Sky Poetry Theater  2010 Series
“Always Open Mic”
Start Time: Monday, March 22 at 7:00pm
Where: Richard Hugo House

Hope to see you there. I’ll be reading work from the Slaughter book, an older fave and new work.

Bio:  This months featured reader is Paul Nelson, long-time Red Sky performer, board member, and supporter.

Paul Everett Nelson is a poet, father, teacher and broadcaster. Founder of the non-profit Global Voices Radio and co-founder of the Northwest SPokenword LAB (SPLAB!) – Paul has published three chap books, two CD’s – Twisting Runes and A Time Before Slaughter, a book of essays: Organic Poetry: North American Field Poetics (VDM, Verlag, Germany, 2008) and an epic poem re-enacting Auburn history, also entitled A Time Before Slaughter (Apprentice House, 2009). A professional broadcaster From 1980 to 2006, he’s interviewed hundreds of authors, poets, activists and whole-system theorists for a syndicated public affairs radio program.