Paul Nelson at Deception Falls, May 1, 2017 This page features some of the SPLAB archive, including interviews done for SPLAB with Visiting Poets, Northwest Poets, readings at SPLAB and elsewhere that we've recorded, & radio segments including SPLAB Presents, which aired for several months in 2011 and were produced by Paul E Nelson. See below. Please also check out the ongoing interview project of our Founding Director Paul E Nelson at American Prophets.
Poets
George Bowering
Trevor Carolan
Brenda Hillman
Andrew Schelling
100 Thousand Poets for Change: Brian McGuigan, Eugenia Toledo, Lawrence Matsuda, Nilki Benitez, Judith Roche, Deborah Woodard, Frances McCue, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Cedar Sigo.
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SPLAB Presents
Voices from Occupy Seattle
Xi Chuan
Johnny Moses
Photo by Inye Wokoma
Carletta Carrington Wilson is a poet and graphic artist who recently was artist in residence at the Washington House and studio in Seattle’s Central District. She honored James Washington, the late sculptor by creating an installation, many original pieces of art and a poem. On Memorial Day weekend, she led a tour of the space and her work there, the focus of the SPLAB Presents for the week of July 18, 2011. Carletta will be part of the 100 THOUSAND Poets for Change event at SPLAB on September 24th. (A 2010 interview of Carletta Wilson by Paul Nelson is available here.) *****************
Judith Roche is a Seattle poet and arts educator who curated the Bumbershoot literary arts programs for over 20 years. On the SPLAB Presents produced for the week of July 11, 2001, she reads from her Salmon Suite recorded at the Vashon Island Poetry Festival. ************ Frances McCue is a Seattle poet, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington and co-founder of Seattle’s writing center The Richard Hugo House. Her new book, the Bled, was written in response to her husband’s sudden accidental death in Morocco. Frances McCue on SPLAB Presents for week of 6.20.11 Segment two for the week of June 27. Segment three, for the week of July 4, 2011. The entire interview conducted by Paul E Nelson at SPLAB May 13, 2011. *********SPLAB Presents for the week of May 31 featuring wildlife biologist Dominick DellaSalla.For the week of June 6 it's here. Other segments can be hear here as well as here. Hear the whole interview, recorded May 9, 2011, here. **********SPLAB Presents for the week of May 30 (from C.A. Conrad's May 1, 2011 SPLAB reading) and May 23, 2011, reading some of his Somapoetics poems at Open Books, April 30, 2011. Our thanks to Open Bo oks for help in making this recording possible. His 4.30.11 Open Books reading His 5.1.11 SPLAB Reading *************SPLAB Presents for the week of May 9, 2011. Allen Ginsberg reading and discussing Autumn Leaves from an interview with Paul Nelson recorded June 12, 1994. SPLAB Presents for the week of May 2, 2011. Allen Ginsberg discusses First Thought, Best Thought from an interview with Paul Nelson recorded June 12, 1994. ************Interview with Nate Mackey, March 11, 12, 2011, conducted by Paul E Nelson, during Nate's trip to Seattle as part of the SPLAB Visiting Poets Series. Here are links to Nate's: Saturday, March 12, 2011 reading His reading of the Splay Anthem poem On Antiphon Island The Friday, March 11, 2011 interview with Paul Nelson and The March 12 workshop (huge file)...