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 | Apr 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Koon Woon of Goldfish Press and Leopoldo Seguel of Poetry Bridge, the official launch of my new book Haibun de la Serna happens Wednesday, April 13 at C&P Coffee Company and online via a stream that Leopoldo will manage. I hope to see you at the venue or...
by Splabman | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Now that Haibun de la Serna, my latest book of poems, is out, it is time to launch the HdlS WORLD TOUR to promote it. I am blessed to have a sympathetic publisher in Koon Woon of Goldfish Press and a sympathetic musical collaborator in Jim O’Halloran. I have the...
by Splabman | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am delighted to announce today that a book I finished ten years ago has just been published by Koon Woon’s Goldfish Press. Haibun de la Serna is the book. It consists of 99 neo-barroco haibun all starting with an epigraph by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. The book...
by Splabman | May 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
oIs it Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? Can you tell the difference? Is close reading dead? The issue of cultural appropriation has flared up in the last ten days or so thanks to The Writer’s Union of Canada and syndicated conservative columnist...
