by Splabman | Jan 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
It takes years for most poets to learn a craft and then unlearn certain rules, or learn how to creatively break them like playing with syntax, making abrupt subject changes and other techniques associated with the Euro-American avant-garde. But to some people it comes...
by Splabman | Jan 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
I will be doing readings from American Sentences at two upcoming gigs and one of work completely created for Greg Bem’s latest literary adventure. Dates: Wednesday, Jan 20 – 9pm, at Sonic Bloom – Inumbrating Pinnacle (Seattle Center) (Paul Constant...
by Splabman | Jan 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
There are a few developments with the Make It True anthology and the combination of bioregionalism and poetry. I hope you’ll help us get the word out about some events coming up. It was great to meet so many of the poets in the book for the first time last...
by Splabman | Jan 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
This started out as a Facebook comment, but I have to document some of my thoughts on this day we find out David Bowie has died of liver cancer. (He died yesterday, January 10, 2016). I was the Music Director for WWCT in Peoria, Illinois, when I was invited to a...
by Splabman | Jan 10, 2016 | POPO
Since 2004, I’ve had a little soft spot in my heart for Muslims given that my spiritual practice (the Latihan Kejiwaan of Subud) was created (discovered?/invented?) by a Muslim. (I was initiated into Subud June 2004.) Maybe that’s why the case of the man...