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Contact: Paul E. Nelson
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SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper

In this E-Fishwrapper, Bookfest Panel Is Seattle Hostile to Literary Innovation?, SPLAB REBORN!, Soma Body Work Opportunity, Eileen Myles, more Nico, Submit to Drunken Boat you lush, Doe Bay & Seattle Bookfest 11 days away.

1. On Sunday, October 25 at 1PM at Bookfest, please come to see the panel entitled: Is Seattle Hostile to Literary Innovation? Panelists include: Sam Hamill, Judith Roche, J.W. Marshall of Open Books, John Olson and Sarah Mangold. Your humble emcee is that wily Splabman himself, Paul Nelson. The panel goes for an hour and Sam reads afterwards and then will sell books at the SPLAB booth. Also, stop by the SPLAB poetry stage, for two full days of readings by published poets.

2. Speaking of SPLAB. It LIVES! It can’t be stopped! It’s a runaway train! It’s out of control! Perhaps Auburn was not the best place for it in the first place, you say. OK. OK. NOW we believe you. Thanks to a generous donation of space from the Columbia City Cinema at 4816 Rainier Av S, we’ll be resuming our writer’s critique circle, Living Room, Tuesday nights at 7P, starting OCTOBER 27. The 2nd floor lounge has plenty of thrift store couches just like the old spot at 14 S. Division in Slaughter.

At Living Room, come to read new work, come to read the work of someone else, or come just to be in the engaging company of other writers. Plans are underway to welcome Michael McClure back to town in March and conduct the (somewhat) Annual Allen Ginsberg Open Mic Marathon in April. A new website is in the works, so stay tuned to your irregular e-fishwrapper. http://www.splab.org.

3. From Sanna Lee Solem:

This Fall/Winter I'm in a bodywork training program studying SOMA Neuromuscular Integration (structural integration). It's a deep-tissue modality that is profoundly transformative. I am looking for one more model to take through all eleven sessions this Fall/Winter. If this piques your interest, please read below to learn more about SOMA…

SOMA utilizes a series of ten or eleven sessions, each progressively addressing specific areas of your body. This deep tissue technique is slow and steady and is supported by your breath and intention…Here is what you need to know: You would be signing up for 11 sessions… For more, email Sanna Lee at: sannaleesolem@yahoo.com. See also: www.somabodywork.org

4. Eileen Myles

Speaking of new websites, from Eileen, who was great at Elliott Bay last Saturday, reading from her new book of essays, The Importance of Being Iceland: Hi Everyone,

I have just renovated my website eileenmyles.com. If you want to know about any readings and events that's where it is. One thing of great interest on it is an index to the Iceland book so you can decide whether to buy it or not based on whether you are in it. Not until the second edition will this be part of the book, so what a deal!

Otherwise there's a lot. Info on "Hell" the opera I did with Michael Webster is growing. Music and photos are coming. Stuff on the Collection of Silence is also beginning. The program with everyone's poems on it will be up soon, but for now some pics and some writing about the making of...

5. From Nico V:

concrete poetry show / seattle

http://www.pilotbooksseattle.com/wordpress/?p=187

6. Drunken Boat: Call for Submissions
From Deborah Poe, who knows a thing or two about getting you out of a jam in Binghamton: Hello,

In August, I sent out news of joining international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat as fiction editor. Drunken Boat is an online literary magazine dedicated to exposure of visual, literary, digital, and cross-media works by renowned and upcoming international artists. To read the current issue, you can visit www.drunkenboat.com.

For those of you who are writing fiction, I hope you will consider sending some of your work. Please also feel free to forward to colleagues, friends and students.

Submissions re-opened in all genres on September 21st. To submit work, follow the link to our online submission manager: www.drunkenboat.com/submissions/index.php

Thank you and best wishes,
Deborah

7. Workshop Doe Bay Thanksgiving Weekend. Your wily SPLABMAN has finagled a weekend at Doe Bay and they’re putting me to work. Workshop, Sunday, November 29 and a reading the following night, Monday the 30th as part of the Artsmith series there. Doe Bay is one of the most remarkable places in the world, with clothing-optional hot tubs, a sauna and a world-class café. Take the workshop and get a break on lodging. Me & Almondina are leaving the day after Thanksgiving just to soak in the atmosphere before going to work. I hope you’ll consider doing an overnight, or two day stay at Doe Bay. Why not make it a long weekend/ mini-vacation? And read at Monday’s open mic. Who knows, maybe they’ll want YOU to read as part of the series.

8. One more Bookfest note:
Columbia City, Seattle, 2009 Bookfest, Oct. 24-25
From: Raven Chronicles
Please stop by Raven Chronicles' table and say hello, if you can make it. And come to Raven's panel, "Writing On The Land" with Panelists: Thomas Hubbard, Paul Hunter (moderator), Goldie Caughlan, Anne Schwartz, Oct. 24th, 2-3 p.m.

Farming employs over a third of the world’s population, yet agricultural production today accounts for less than five percent of the gross world product. The work and its output have been devalued in the marketplace, with the lion’s share accruing not to growers, but to corporate processors, transporters, distributors and retailers, producers of hybrid seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, equipment and fuel. Rather than focusing on how we got to this point, let’s talk about where to go from here — strategies to take back the task of feeding ourselves. Where should we look for answers as individuals to questions of scale, sustainability, health, and security when it comes to issues of food?
And see Bookfest's website for information on directions, etc.
http://www.seattlebookfest.com/

Yes, SPLAB! is coming back, October 24 & 25th, with a booth & whole freakin’ poetry stage at Bookfest, in our new neighborhood, Columbia City. Then the following Tuesday, Living Room. We could use some volunteers for the Bookfest booth and would LOVE to see you at our Living Room kickoff on the 27th.
We still have openings for the McClure workshop, which will be happening in Mid-March. $100 for the workshop and a limit of 20. Michael turns 77 in a week, so if you want to get the story of Projective Verse right from the Rebel Lion’s mouth, hit me back with an email and save a spot. There will also be a lecture and reading that weekend.

& your next E-Fishwrapper may very well have news about the release of A Time Before Slaughter. Hey! Want off this email list? Just ask.

Ciao.

Yr Wily Splabman