by Splabman | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
One of the truly remarkable gifts in the information age is the access to ancestral information. Within the last year I started an account with the Geni.com and in the last week my Brother Andrew dug up some information that affirms what has long been a myth, but...
by Splabman | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
For friends not on Facebook, your humble narrator continues to wade through the social media slop so you don’t have to. A couple of nuggets today: First is this little test to determine where you fall in terms of the political spectrum. A little old-fashioned,...
by Splabman | Jan 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
The last Malpais Review is out and like most literary initiatives on this here continent, it went as far as their Publisher/Editor Gary Brower could take it. I am fortunate enough, thanks to Amalio Madueño, to have two pieces in the journal. One is a review of the...
by Splabman | Jan 21, 2016 | POPO
Written in the heat of the recent Bernus Interruptus, which I witnessed and which my report of (I think) resulted in the loss of one postcard participant. The bloqueo reference is the Cuban economic embargo which has been quite punishing to the people of the country...
by Splabman | Jan 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
It takes years for most poets to learn a craft and then unlearn certain rules, or learn how to creatively break them like playing with syntax, making abrupt subject changes and other techniques associated with the Euro-American avant-garde. But to some people it comes...
