by Splabman | Apr 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve known Matt Trease since he moved to Seattle in 2013. He’s from Tennessee and has spent time in Ohio, Milwaukee and Chicago, and left his academic track just short of his dissertation. We met via the Poetry Postcard Fest and he brought a collage...
by Splabman | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
I am delighted to participate in two readings at AWP which in L.A. this year. One is at the Asterism booth, #750, Thursday, March 27 at 11am. Asterism has picked up much of the slack of SPD’s demise. Asterism distributes books by Watershed Press and the Cascadia...
by Splabman | Mar 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
I feel very fortunate to have successfully navigated another daysong, a day-long poem writing ritual. I set aside Imbolc 2025 to write, as that pagan holiday (& celebration of return of the light) fell on a Saturday this year. For this poem, I leaned heavily on...
by Splabman | Mar 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
What a joy to interview Anne Tardos about her new book The Always Already Absent Present. The audio is online thanks to Zach Charles and here is the video, recorded March 4, 2025. My introduction: The number 7 according to one numerologist, “is both deep and wise… not...
by Splabman | Mar 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
One of the great joys in participating in the recent Cascadia: A Braided Land event at UBCO was meeting 84 year old Northern Cascadia poet Stephan Torre. With roots in Big Sur back in the days before Esalen and knowledge of (& friendship with) some of the Black...
