by Splabman | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
I think it was the second fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali where, at Dever School on the Northwest Side of Chicago, one of my black schoolmates, bussed in from a black neighborhood, asked me who I was favoring in the fight. My answer was Ali. My friend Sam...
by Splabman | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
I remember a former neighbor, the son of Okies who grew up in rural California, when he saw my old Black Lab Kuma eating grass, he said: “We got a grazer!” Indeed, as am I. Whether it’s hawthorne blossoms in Nanaimo during the 3rd Cascadia Poetry...
by Splabman | Jun 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Most recent American Sentence.
by Splabman | Jun 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Yes, I am still writing daily American Sentences. (One a day since 1.1.01.) Jim O’Halloran and I had a gas Friday night (6.3.16) at Another Read Through in Portland on Mississippi and read June sentences from the book. Thanks to all who came to hear us and buy...
by Splabman | Jun 3, 2016 | POPO
Elizabeth Woods checks in from Down Under with a Postcard Fest interview. An excerpt: EW-The festival is now in its tenth year, what are some of the notable aspects a changes you have seen along the way? peN-Each year there is a new wrinkle. I think Judy Kleinberg’s...
