Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia
Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, published by Leaf Press, will be launched at VIU Friday, May 1st, at 7:30pm. This anthology is a collection of innovative and influential poets of Cascadia, the...
View ArticleCascadia in the Nanaimo newspaper
Poets are getting ready to squeak in Nanaimo: http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/entertainment/300815361.html
View ArticleSPLAB Presents #3
Daniel Wolff has published numerous well-received nonfiction books, including a national best-seller that won the Ralph J. Gleason Award for the best music book in 1985. He was nominated for a Grammy...
View ArticleThe After Party
Saturday night (5.2.15) at 10:30PM in Nanaimo at the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival, the After Party. Read one poem and get off the stage. Slam poets give way to sound poets and experimental poets hear...
View ArticleMarmot Bout Poster
At the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Fest in Nanaimo Friday night, a poetry death match.
View Article3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival a Huge Success
Having over the keys to a poetry festival you’ve created can be a nerve-wracking experience, unless the people given the keys are BETTER DRIVERS! Huge thanks to the Nanaimo, BC, local organizing...
View ArticlePort Alberni News on Cascadia Po Fest
There are two short and very sweet write-ups on the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival staged in Nanaimo, BC, on Vancouver Island Apr 30-May 3. The first by young poet Winter Darbley starts: I knew that I...
View ArticleReview of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia
Bless Mary Ann Moore for her wonderful review of the new anthology of Cascadia Poetry Make It True. Dig: In Lowther’s poem, Nuu-chah-nulth, Good Advice, the decolonization of “my mind,” aligns very...
View ArticleThe Last Breadline
I remember the late Marion Kimes saying that Red Sky Poetry Theater was successful in part because of some of the spinoff groups that came from it, including Subtext and SPLAB. SPLAB takes a modicum of...
View ArticleOverleaf Chapbook Contest
The Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Competition awards contracts to one Canadian and one international poet each year. Winners receive 50 copies of their chapbook as well as publicity and $100.00 to put...
View ArticleNate Mackey in Seattle
Former SPLAB Visiting Poet Nate Mackey is back in Seattle for two events. Wednesday, September 30, he’s at the University of Washington to speak “On Breath and Precarity” Wednesday, Sep 30, 2015,...
View ArticleTacoma Poetry Fest Oct 16-17
Part of the Tacoma Arts Month celebration, the inaugural Tacoma Poetry Fest happens Friday, October 16th and Saturday, October 17th at the Tacoma Public Utilities Building Auditorium. Headliner David...
View ArticleSam Hamill on Vashon Island Oct 10
Saturday, Oct 10th, 5pm Sam Hamill to Read from Habitation Sam Hamill returns to Vashon to read from Habitation at the Vashon Bookshop on Saturday, October 10, at 5pm. Hamill, author of more than forty...
View ArticleMarilyn Stablein on Vashon Island, Oct 13
Tuesday, October 13 7-9pm Free Dreams, Travelogs & Artist Books: a talk, reading and mini-trunk show by poet Marilyn Stablein A June 2015 interview she did with Paul Nelson can be heard here. A...
View ArticleColumbia City Gallery Literary Series
The cool cooperative gallery in the heart of Seattle’s Columbia City historical district is going to be presenting a series of Literary Arts events centered around a certain theme: Columbia City...
View Article2nd Rainier Valley Lit Crawl
The first Rainier Valley Lit Crawl happened Sunday, March 8, 2015 and the second one is to happen later this month. Jeanne Morel, Ra’anan David and Barbara Erwine are the curators. All three were...
View ArticleMagdalena Zurawski & Shae Savoy
Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB) brings two poets into one space for an evening of readings. Join us for this literary event in the heart of Seattle’s Capitol Hill. A $5 suggested donation will support the...
View ArticleEBSN5 Manchester (RFP)
Dear EBSN Members: The CFP for the Fifth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, which will take place in Manchester in June 2016, can be found on our website HERE. We would be very...
View ArticleCall for Writing – COG
Dear Paul Nelson: What do Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), A. Van Jordan, Gish Jen, Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Donna Steiner, Opal Palmer Adisa, Molly Giles, Tomas...
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