by Splabman | May 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
I can’t begin to tell you how thrilled I am with Pablo Baler’s review of my latest book Haibun de la Serna in the new edition of Exacting Clam. He was the person who introduced me to the work of Ramón Gómez de la Serna, saying my American Sentences...
by Splabman | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Since the beginning of 2019 I have been writing “prose sonnets” Matt Trease calls them. 14 line prose poems often with an epigraph and sometimes three. I saw the form first in the work of Jack Clarke, who was at SUNY-Buffalo for many years and felt I had...
by Splabman | Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
In years past I have taken time on the 1st of September to write my POPO afterword. If felt like a ritual to end each extended August with a meditation on what I had done, followed by a photo or video of the cards I received. That it is part of my own personal...
by Splabman | Feb 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
This past January 18 and 19 (2015) I had the great pleasure of going to Hallendale Beach, Florida, and having access to the great Cuban-American poet José Kozer in the home he shares with his wife Guadalupe. I packed some short sleeve shirts, escaped Seattle winter,...
by Splabman | Jan 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
In the first part of a November 2001 interview, Jerome Rothenberg discussed his early introduction to the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorca’s use of the word duende, a kind of Spanish troll or fairy which Lorca used as a kind of force in which the...