by Splabman | Jun 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars was a great little, shit-stirring website that reminded us that poetry wars are ongoing and critical, if they lead to dialog. Community happens only when there is real dialog and I feel like Dispatches was a community. Still is, in many...
by Splabman | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
In an essay I wrote ten years ago (!) I compared subcultures in North America to make a point about poetry cultures. The essay is Changing a Culture: (A Look at Cultural Modernism and Free Market Verse). In it I allude to Modernist culture and my inspiration for that...