by Splabman | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
The first harvest of the new year, my fourteenth with a daily practice of writing one 17 syllable poem. More on American Sentences elsewhere on this site, but for now, a few from 2014: 1.3.14 – A sort of Sudhana seeks the genius loci of Cascadia. 1.5.14 –...
by Splabman | Feb 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
An interesting confluence of events in my life the last couple of weeks which involve a bit of poetics, a bit from one of my recent interviews, Facebook discussions and Feminism. And involves Charles Olson. A recent Facebook thread was started by Sam Hamill, was liked...
by Splabman | Feb 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
It was after I finished my M.A. from Lesley University, a course of study I organized with the help of a few select advisors that one of my most close readers, Chuck Pirtle, suggested what I was heading towards in my writing was in helping define a West Coast poetics....
by Splabman | Jan 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
I did my first interviews very early in my radio career, but started to gain some skill at preparing and conducting interviews about 1990, when I became News and Community Affairs Director at KKNW-FM in Seattle. One thing this activity has given me, more than anything...
by Splabman | Jan 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
We celebrated 20 years of SPLAB last Saturday at the Spring Street Center in Seattle, which is also the Seattle Subud House, my spiritual home. I was pleasantly surprised by the good turnout and happy to unveil the schedule for the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival which I...
