For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
SPLAB!
C. City, WA 98118
http://splabman.blogspot.com/

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

For Immediate Release
Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Global Voices Radio/SPLAB!
Seattle, WA 98118-1802
http://splabman.blogspot.com/

Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper

In this E-Fishwrapper, Mexico City Blues tomorrow (Sunday) at Hugo House w/ Band o Poets (not the John Burgess Society), Sam Hamill featured on an interesting Bookfest panel, A Time Before Slaughter inches closer and a reading/workshop at Doe Bay in November, another Hugo House class, Nico crucifies books in Georgetown, Glenn Beck gets the key to Mt. Vernon, Poetry in Fremont, Raven Chronicles workshop, new book from Tim McNulty, a fund for ailing Gabrielle Bouliane and plans are being made for a new SPLAB! in C City.

1) Mexico City Blues turns 50 this year. Michael McClure called the long Kerouac poem a masterpiece, “a religious poem startling in its majesty and comedy and gentleness and vision.” John Burgess has assembled a highly capable group of poets and musicians to read and perform the poem (almost all of it) at the Richard Hugo House tomorrow, Sunday, Sept 13 at 2P. It’s free. Bring your copy and read along. Or risk suffering from the plague of pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nits, Mice, lice, lizards, rats, roan Racinghorses, poxy bucolic pigtics, horrible unnameable lice of vultures, Murderous attacking dog armies of Africa…

2) The Hugo House Fall Class Calendar is out here: http://hugohouseservices.org/home/Class/DisplayClass.aspx?CatalogID=12
and look at this FASCINATING one day course: Investigative Poetry
“News is the first draft of history.” Pity if it turns out to be Fox News, eh? Well, don’t let those fuckers get the last word, do it yourself with a template from Ed Sanders, Joanne Kyger or Allen Ginsberg. We’ll look at some postmodern examples of history in verse form, do some writing exercises to warm us up, then spend a good hunk of the time working on a poem that includes history. Bring a book you’ve read (biographies are good) a news story or a whole file of stories on a subject, along with an open mind.
Instructor: Paul Nelson
Meets: Saturday, October 17, 2009

3) Bookfest is Back!
Remember the old Northwest Book Festival on the waterfront? Seattle's Columbia City community is bringing it back. The event will be held October 24-25 at the Columbia City Event Center, at 3528 S. Ferdinand, a block off Rainier and a block from the Columbia City Light Rail Station. So far the response has been terrific with dozens of local writers and bookstores already committed, including POETS Judith Roche, John Marshall, John Olson and others. Sunday the 25th at 1P, Sam Hamill, Sarah Mangold and those poets already mentioned will participate in a panel: Is Seattle Hostile to Innovative Writing?
http://www.seattlebookfest.com/

4) Michael McClure is touring and interested in a Seattle date this Fall or next Spring. He’s interested in doing a reading/workshop and lecture. The workshop would have space for 20 at $100 and the lecture space for 30 at $30 each. Would you sign up? Co-sponsors and volunteers are needed, so call me or email back if you can help make this happen. 206.422.5002 pen (at) splab (dot) org

5) From Nico
First Salvo:
Books nailed to telephone poles in downtown Georgetown
The idea is to follow the deterioration and disintegration of these books
Started September 5th
Thanks for your time

6) Doe Bay Workshop and Reading
Doe Bay, that magical retreat/resort on Orcas Island continues its renewal by starting a Literary Series on Monday nights. Working with Artsmith, they’ve come up with a Monday night reading series featuring an Island poet with an out-of-towner and Open Mic. I’ll be doing it the Monday after Thanksgiving and likely facilitating a workshop on that Sunday, the 29th of November. http://www.orcasartsmith.org/ and http://www.DoeBay.com

7) From Don Kentop

The distinguished poets Richard Kenney, Sharon Cumberland and Erin Malone will be reading at the Fremont Public Library, on Saturday, September 26th at 2:00PM.

I hope you can join us.

Don Kentop

8) Gabrielle Bouliane has Cancer
Many folks connected to the Seattle Slam scene for a long time no doubt know Gabrielle Bouliane, a fine poet who documented slam via video footage. She’s in a Texas hospital with a rare form of Cancer. There is a Facebook group dedicated to helping her out:

Subject: Gabrielle PayPal Fund

So many of you have asked what you can do to show your love to Gabrielle from wherever you are. Here is your answer!

Phil West has set up a PayPal account for G. The current priority is a laptop replacement or repair, for, as Phil said, "her computer is currently almost literally being held together by duct tape and chicken wire."

All you need to do to donate to fund is go to http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.paypal.com, click the tab that says
Personal>>Send Money>>Send Money Online

Follow the directions, using gabriellefund@gmail.com as Gabrielle's email.

On behalf of everyone - many thanks in advance,

~ missy (dugan) ~

9) From Michael Daley:

Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press is pleased to announce the publication of

Some Ducks:

A Cycle of Poems for My Daughter
By Tim McNulty

In "Some Ducks" poet and nature writer Tim McNulty gathers together poems written to his daughter, Caitlin, on the occasion of her 21st birthday. Beginning with "First Song," written the night of her birth, McNulty celebrates his daughter's early encounters with the
moon, bears, the ocean, ducks, and her first glimpse of mortality, "where all we know of love / and loss / spills past the words / we have to tell it."

Tender, insightful, always delightful, these lyric poems capture moments of epiphany between father and daughter. And in their celebration of the ordinary, they echo Czeslaw Milosz's observation, "Only the moment is eternal."

10) So they’re giving Glenn Beck, Fox News demagogue, the Key to Mt. Vernon. Young Democrats are chanting Change the Locks! I say we buy tickets for the event and throw shoes at him!

11) From Phoebe Bosche:

Los Norteños Flash Workshop #2: The Prose Poem
When: Saturday, October 10th, 2009, 1-3 pm.
Where: Raven Chronicles’ Office
909 N.E. 43rd St., #205
(Corner of 43rd St. and Roosevelt, 3-storied Green Building),
Seattle, WA 98105

Author Oliver de la Paz, Assistant Professor and Creative Writing Advisor in the Department of English at Western Washington University, will offer a two hour workshop on the prose poem.

The workshop will be $35 per person, with priority to members of Los Norteños. (Bring check or cash on the day of the workshop: Make checks out to RAVEN CHRONICLES.) We need a minimum of ten people for this to work, with a maximum of twelve.

OK, so SPLAB! Is in the early stages of getting our act together to relocate in Columbia City. I think we’ve nailed a fine venue for our weekly Writer’s Critique Circle, again to be called Living Room, and that will start in late October. Your fishwrapperer may have been taking most of the summer off from his e-fishwrapping duties, but with a new SPLAB!, you can be sure we’ll be more regular. (Cuz they are loaded with fiber!)

They say A Time Before Slaughter is coming out October 1 and they seem for real, those folks at Apprentice House press (http://www.ApprenticeHouse.com) so if you have a copy coming, get ready, there will CERTAINLY be a fishwrapper with that little chicken mcnugget.

And finally, if you want to do a postcard project next August, but be one of 31 serious poets who will commit to writing one every day, please let me know. There are a few of us unhappy with the way the August project has been going (so many SHITTY poems) and we’d like to limit it to 31 if there’s enough interest. Hasta mañana.

xoxo President Postcard.
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