Living Room, 11.9.10
Resisting the Intelligence (Alex Bleecker facilitates) Often likened to Billy Collins and criticized by academics as seeking to ‘dumb down’ poetry, acclaimed poet and critic Tony Hoagland has always...
View ArticleLiving Room Tuesday, October 4 – 7PM 98118 Lives!
“To be frank, the inevitable panel discussion on the ‘poetry of place’ bores me: it takes place too literally. The place of poetry is nothing less than the place of love, for language; the place of...
View ArticleErasure: Dec 6 L v ng R m 7P
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. —Marvin Bell What is erasure poetry and why does Ron Silliman compare it to the play of burlesque or...
View ArticleWhat do you Love? (2.14.12 Living Room)
To paraphrase Bo Diddley: I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie A brand new house on the road side, and it’s a-made out of rattlesnake hide Got a band new chimney...
View ArticleAbecedarians Living Room 2.28.12 7P
Abecedarians & Other Constraints This week we’ll take on the notion of the abecedarian and combine it with a page or two from a reference book containing an alphabetical listing of words–the...
View ArticleSPLAB Living Room for Tuesday, May 15: No Lack of Ghosts 7P
Paranomasia has nothing to do with a lack of ghosts. Rather, it comes from Greek, meaning word-shunting, and refers to the deliberate exploitation of words to achieve multiple meanings, ambiguities,...
View ArticleLast Two SPLAB Living Rooms in Columbia City
We’re down to two last Living Room writer’s critique circle sessions in Columbia City. Early returns on the outreach we’re doing suggests that, while the current SPLAB is a lovely and intimate space,...
View ArticlePoetilla Floats On
Invitation to Poetilla 5 Want to spend a couple of hours on Lake Union in the company of savvy writers? Looking for intelligent critique of your work—whether poetry, fiction or something in between?...
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