by Splabman | Nov 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
A five week workshop which now has most of the same participants going into year three is over. I received a wonderful testimonial from Ann Graham Walker: I think you can take a lot of credit for the fact that people were inspired to do great work in the class. There...
by Splabman | Nov 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Thanks to a member of my Subud spiritual community, I was alerted to a new documentary about gender relations in Hollywood and a thesis by a director that says the “visual rhetoric” of camera angles contributes to the objectification of women in Hollywood,...
by Splabman | Oct 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am grateful to 4Culture and the Des Moines Arts Commission for the support of three free workshops next month. Poetics as Cosmology is the title of a workshop I have been facilitating online for three years. I gave a talk of the same name in March of 2022 in which I...
by Splabman | Oct 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to have a version of my June 2022 interview with Claudia Castro Luna published in Poetry NW. Thank you Bill Carty. Here is an excerpt: There’s war raging in Ukraine, a general feeling that a second U.S. civil war is possible given the divisiveness...
by Splabman | Oct 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
MONDAY I’m delighted to be reading for Raul Sanchez Monday night at HeartSpace in Lake City. I’ve known Raul from the local poetry community going back almost 30 years. (1994, at Auburn’s Best Café was the place we met, before the Auburn Spokenword...
