Dear SPLAB!-Fan:

The Northwest SPokenword LAB is an intergenerational spokenword Performance, Resource and Outreach center in Auburn, Washington, a traditional blue-collar town 30 miles south of Seattle. http://www.splab.org on the web. We have been facilitating literary arts events in Auburn since October 1995, with the SPLAB! itself opening on February 1, 1997. Many important poets did readings and workshops at our old venue, including Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Jerome Rothenberg, Wanda Coleman, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Diane di Prima, Ethelbert Miller, Joanne Kyger, Ed Sanders, Eileen Myles and others.

This year we celebrate our 10th anniversary at two venues on Auburn's Cultural Campus at Les Gove Park: The Auburn Library and the Senior Center. On Friday, October 21, at 11AM, Adrian Castro will speak to students at Cathy Ruiz' class at Seattle Central Community College. I am hoping for an interview for Adrian with Dave Beck on The Beat at KUOW that day at 2PM. On Friday at 4 Adrian will speak at the Auburn Library as part of the King County Library System's Teen Read week. KCLS is a co-sponsor of this event and wil be giving it system-wide publicity.

On Saturday, October 22nd, Adrian will do a workshop on performance at 10AM and a reading at 7PM. On Sunday he'll be part of a brunch with SPLAB! facilitators and I'll do an interview with him for our local radio station and our archives. Some of the old audio we have is on the SPLAB! website. http://splab.org/poet_mp3_listing.html#ag

We will also have Lisa Jarnot as part of this event. I think she'll arrive on Friday. If there is interest, we can have her arrive in time for The Beat. She will teach a 2PM workshop on Saturday and be part of the reading. She'll also do a reading at the Evergreen State College in Leonard Schwartz' advanced poetics class on Monday at 7PM.

Suggested Donation for all events (two workshops and the reading) is $50 in advance, $60 the day of and $10 for the reading only.  We accept Paypal donations & registraion) at: http://splab.org/contact.html

Other workshop facilitators include Paul Hunter, Chuck & Rebecca Pirtle and others.

ADRIAN CASTRO POETRY WORKSHOP 

The Poets’ Place 

A workshop will be conducted focusing on writing about place. We will examine poems both from workshop participants and other poets that exemplify the use of place. We will also ask where is that place? Where is that physical place, that geographical place, and also where is that mental place? Is that place existent, nostalgic, dreamt, etc.? Participants will bring to the workshop poems with these themes. Feedback will be given based on the Liz Lerhman method, which focuses feedback beginning from the artist place of inspiration and creative space, then from the reader’s/listener’s perspective—i.e. what the reader thought, felt, assimilated while reading the poem. Lastly poets will be encouraged to appropriately render their poems out aloud—from their voice, their perspective, their place.

 

LISA JARNOT POETRY WORKSHOP 

Basic Elements 
 
This seminar will focus on the basic building blocks of the poem, beginning with vowels, consonants, and syllable clusters, and evolving
toward an evaluation of the larger metrical structures inherent in poetry-- phrases, lines, and stanzas .  Working from Louis Zukofsky's idea that poetry can be evaluated within the range of ³Lower level speech, upper level music² , we'll explore ways to locate the musicality of different kinds of poetry and we'll ask what makes a poem tick.  During the workshop we'll read poems that adhere to metrical forms and we'll also look at "Open Verse" poems.  In addition we'll write some poems of our own.

 

Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time
Adrian Castro, a Cuban-Dominican poet and Ifa priest from Miami, writes as if "Chano Pozo were hitting the keys of a typewriter instead of the skin of a drum." His debut collection of poems, Cantos to Blood & Honey, was an Academy of American Poets Eric Mathieu King winner and his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including Renaming Ecstacy: Latino Writers on the Sacred and Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature. Also Available by this Author: Cantos to Blood & Honey    http://www.coffeehousepress.org/wisefishbio.asp

Lisa Jarnot

Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967. She attended the State University of New York at Buffalo and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Since the mid-1990s she has lived in New York City where she has been actively involved in the community of The Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church in the Bowerie. She has edited two small magazines (No Trees, 1987-1990, and Troubled Surfer, 1991-1992) as well as The Poetry Project Newsletter and An Anthology of New American Poetry (Talisman House Publishers, 1997). She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck Press, 1996), Ring of Fire (Zoland Books, 2001 and Salt Publishers, 2003), and Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003). Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming from University of California Press. She teaches at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Bard College, and Brooklyn College and has given lectures and readings throughout the United States and Europe. Lisa Jarnot’s books may be ordered through Small Press Distribution: www.SPDBooks.org. Further information about her work is also available at Flood Editions and Saltweb.   http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/jarnot/ http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/lisajarnot/

Our season begins Tuesday, September 13 at 7PM at Cliche Cafe, with Living Room, an intimate Writer's Critique circle. Cliche Cafe is at 130 W. Main in downtown Auburn. Participants can come to read their writing for a gentle critique, read the work of someone else or come just to be in the engaging company of other writers. Writers of all levels of experience are welcome. Living Room meets every Tuesday through December 13, 2005.

Sponsors include:

The City of Auburn, The Auburn Arts Commission, The King County Library System, The Friends of the Auburn Library, The Friends of the Muckleshoot Library, The Breneman Jaech Foundation, 4 Culture, Cavanaugh Ace Hardware, Scarff Ford-Isuzu and Speakeasy Broadband.

One other note: We are now broadcasting to downtown Auburn 24/7 at 1640AM with Auburn Community Radio.   Thanks to Jim Nannery at Everything Evergreen for his web help: http://www.everythingevergreen.com/

Paul

Schedule:

 

Friday, October 21, 11A, Adrian Castro speaks to Cathy Ruiz’ class at Seattle Central CC

 

At 4PM, Adrian speaks on the role of the poet at Auburn Library. FREE.

 

Saturday, 9A Registration Begins at Auburn Senior Center for workshops.

 

Adrian Castro teaches at 10AM at Senior Center, Lisa Jarnot at 2PM and two FREE workshops will happen at Auburn Library, Paul Hunter and Chuck & Rebecca Pirtle.

 

Saturday 7P, Adrian, Lisa and other facilitators read at the Auburn Senior Center.

 

Directions:

 

http://kcls.org/auburn/aubdir.cfm