They will facilitate a workshop on the poetics of Allen Ginsberg on Saturday, April 8 from 2-5. A workshop taking off from the poetics of the late Allen Ginsberg, conducted by two friends of his from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Writing exercises drawn from the Mind-Writing Slogans Mr. Ginsberg complied late in his life, where he condensed 50 years of poetry wisdom into a poet's tool-kit of aphorisms.
Specifics: American Sentences modeled on haiku, poems of direct perception, attention to mind's spontaneous
clarity, breath chants & good political humor. "What did I notice? Particulars! The / vision of the great
one is myriad-"
Anne & Andrew will perform a short reading to kick off the 4th Annual A.G. Open Mic Poetry marathon at 8PM Saturday night. There will be a poetry videoconference link with Chicago at 8PM and Vancouver B.C. at 10:30PM
The suggested donation for the reading and for the marathon is $10.00 and the workshop $35.00. Seating is limited as SPLAB! is an intimate space, so make reservations today by calling 253-735-MEAT in the Puget Sound region, or toll-free 888-735-6328 outside Seattle. Ten student scholarships are available with advance registration. Co-sponsored by The King County Arts Commission, Twice-Sold Tales, & the Best Western Peppertree Auburn Inn.
Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over fifty books of poetry including Poems for the Game of Silence, Poland/1931, A Seneca Journal, Vienna Blood, That Dada Strain, New Selected Poems 1970-1985, Khurbn & Other Poems, and most recently The Lorca Variations (all from New Directions). Describing his poetry career as "an ongoing attempt to reinterpret the poetic past from the point of view of the present," he has edited several major assemblages of traditional and contemporary poetry: Poems for The Millennium, Technicians of the Sacred (tribal and oral poetry from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania), Shaking the Pumpkin (traditional American Indian poetry), America a Prophecy a radical revision of the poetries of the North American continent), Revolution of the Word (American experimental poetry between the two world wars), and A Big Jewish Book (subtitled "Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the Present"). He has also been involved, since the late 1950s, with various aspects of poetry performance, including two radio soundplays written and performed for Westdeuttscher Rundfunk (Cologne).
The workshop will focus on techniques of composition that involve interactive engagement with the work of significant or influential "others." Translation, collage, gematria, mediumship, and other appropriative techniques will be referred to as needed. Examples will be drawn from Jerome Rothenberg's works and those of other contemporaries.
Suggested readings: Poems for the Millennium, Gematria, The Lorca Variations.
The suggested donation for the reading and for the reading is $10.00 and the workshop $40.00. Seating is limited as SPLAB! is an intimate space, so make reservations today by calling 253-735-MEAT in the Puget Sound region, or toll-free 888-735-6328 outside Seattle. Ten student scholarships are available with advance registration.
The Visiting Poet Series at the Northwest SPokenword LAB is made possible, in part, by King County Arts Commission, the The Auburn Arts Commission, and the following co-sponsors.
The Best Western Peppertree Auburn Inn in Auburn, 10 miles south of Sea-Tac Airport near Emerald Downs Racetrack
and Highway 167, featuring a 24 hour jacuzzi and indoor heated pool! -
The Visiting Poet Series at SPLAB! is another Village-Building Project of It Plays in Peoria Productions. (IRS 501(c)(3) # 91-1618296)
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Writing and Performance Workshops are free to high school students and $10 per class for the public.
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