We look forward to seeing you this September at &Now: Points of Convergence! Registration is now open. Please visit Ticketspice to reserve your pass and order boxed lunches. Complete conference details, including travel, accessibility, and technology information, can be found at the conference website: andnowfestival.com. General Inquiries: andnowfestival2019@gmail.com. Registration questions: iasinfo@uw.edu.
SPLAB is a Washington-based poetics-oriented non-profit organization founded in 1993. Using the tools of literature, our organization addresses the cultural, political, and social issues facing us in contemporary society, among them end-stage empire, the destruction of the biosphere, rampant xenophobia and violence and extreme income inequality. At &Now we seek to create a dialog around the anthologies we have conceived and published, how they fit into our bioregional cultural investigation: how the stance of bioregionalism is founded in sustainability (resistance to colonialism and empire, social diversity (or lack thereof); and the unique culture of Cascadia. SPLAB board members Cate Gable, Nadine Maestas, Paul E Nelson and Matt Trease will each discuss at least one of the recent publications: the Samthology, Make it True: Poetry From Cascadia, Make it True meets Medusario, American Prophets and 56 Days of August, the connections to bioregionalism and the bridges between cultures/interests/affinity groups we have sought to build via these projects. Some of our points of convergence are the specifics of location, transgender politics, serial poetics, ethnicity, and the fallibility of translation.
Cate Gable is a Journalist, strategic planner for NGOs, poet & author, ecopreneur & agent for change, musician, and foodie, w/ homes in Paris, France; Seattle & Nahcotta WA. She is a columnist for the Chinook Observer.
Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet’s poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. She loves mountain biking and trail running in dangerous and remote places in the Northwest and teaches Creative Writing and Literature in San... Read More →
Founder of SPLAB and the Cascadia Poetry Festival, Paul E. Nelson was a professional broadcaster from 1980 to 2006, produced over 600 interviews and has given presentations or readings in Brussels, London, China, Nanaimo and elsewhere. Published books include: American Prophets (Interviews... Read More →
Matt Trease is an artist, poet, IT Analyst, and astrologer living in south Seattle, WA, where he serves on the board of the Seattle Poetics Lab (SPLAB) and co-curates the Margin Shift reading series. His poems have recently appeared in small po[r]tions, WordLitZine, Phoebe, Fact-Simile... Read More →
Friday September 20, 2019 10:45am - 12:00pm PDT
UW1-050
