by Splabman | Jun 28, 2019 | POPO
The signup is already open for the 13th August Poetry Postcard Fest and opens EVEN EARLIER for 2020. (July 18, 2019!) In order to allow as many people as possible to participate in the joy of postcards, we opened registration much earlier than the traditional July 4th...
by Splabman | Jun 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Huge thanks to SPLAB Board Member and EasySpeak Seattle founder Peter Munro for tipping me off to a new journal named Sons & Daughters that seeks to publish work inspired by Charles Olson’s seminal essay Projective Verse. Peter figured it would be right up...
by Splabman | Jun 15, 2019 | POPO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPLAB ISSUES CALL FOR 13TH AUGUST POETRY POSTCARD FEST Seattle, WA, June 5, 2019—Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented nonprofit organization and organizing entity of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, is now registering writers for...
by Splabman | May 21, 2019 | POPO
I have been running since about May 7 and no rest in sight as I write this from Brooklyn, in the city that does not sleep because jackhammers start at 7am and people are never afraid to use their car horn. Ever. While I visit my daughter the journalist, I do NYC...
by Splabman | May 1, 2019 | POPO
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2019 marks the thirteenth year of the fest and this is the official call. It is the biggest annual fundraiser for SPLAB. Again this year poets will be organized in groups of 32...
by Splabman | Apr 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
A year after Sam Hamill’s death, in what might be his last book blurb, he writes: “Zhang Er brings us startling “burial ground poems from Chinese that are striking in their perspective and elegant in style and presentation. They represent a poetic sensibility that is...
