SPLAB

The Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB) works to reestablish poetry as a method for knowing self & place by engaging poets, writers and artists bioregionally in Cascadia to build community through shared experience of the spoken & written word. SPLAB supports: Poetry as a noetic practice allied with outsider traditions. A poetry of witness, deeply rooted to place. Organic form in all of its manifestations, open, discerning and aware of/responsible to the interconnectivity of life. A visionary poetics that embodies our place on the edge of a continent. SPLAB envisions 10,000 people each year participating in POPO and using those revenues to maintain operations, including administration, the Cascadia Poetry Festival and other in-person events in Seattle and the Cascadia bioregion and our ongoing interviews.