by Splabman | Feb 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was a rookie interviewer in 1992, when I had the good fortune to be able to interview Peter Berg of the Planet Drum Foundation about the concept of bioregionalism. When I listen back to the audio, I wince, at the affectation and the inexperience I had at the time,...
by Splabman | Feb 21, 2016 | POPO
An August Poetry Postcard from 2015 featuring yet another photo of mine from 2014, this one from the Skokomish Rez, I love the allusion to the American Indian Movement and hope President Obama will finally pardon Leonard Peltier. But the poem is more about...
by Splabman | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve loved the Onion for years and can remember almost wetting myself at the biting humor of some of the stories. (One on Ozzie Guillen comes to mind.) Dark, un-PC and probably the best thing going in professional comedy in the U.S. for a long time. I put them...
by Splabman | Feb 17, 2016 | POPO
I like to think of it as a good sign in my life when critters are waiting until I pass by to drop from the sky in need of a little aid. Fortunately this recent experience was only a hummingbird, but the thud was palatable and the experience quite humbling. In town for...
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...
