by Splabman | Sep 24, 2014 | POPO
Was going over last year’s journal entry for this date and came across John Olson’s wonderful birthday poem for me, as well as some of his comments regarding my essay Organic In Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies. He said: Dear Paul, Glad you dug the...
by Splabman | Sep 23, 2014 | POPO
My poems written in Mexico in August are starting to arrive at their intended destinations and so I continue with the posting here. The last few lines from this poem are taken almost verbatim from a sign at Casa Azul, the home of Frida Kahlo, to which I made a...
by Splabman | Sep 16, 2014 | POPO
At last count, forty poetry postcards came my way as part of the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. Having just completed its eighth year, the fest is an effort to build community, to allow participants to experience the joy of spontaneous composition and to reach back...
by Splabman | Sep 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the high points for me at the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival May 2014, at Seattle U and Spring Street Center in Seattle, was hearing Stephen Collis read. He may be the quintessential Cascadia poet, as he’s a voracious reader, an activist often sticking his...
by Splabman | Sep 15, 2014 | POPO
This is the first of my poems written in Mexico for the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. For more details on all the postcard poems I wrote in 2014 see this page. This poem, like many in Mexico, was inspired by my visit to Casa Azul.
