by Splabman | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m honored when I can be of use, or my writing or interviewing or organizing inspires someone. The latest example of that comes from my friend Andrew Engelson, who created the Cascadia Journal and was inspired by my latest daysong, The Singing Bullets of Soft...
by Splabman | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Never in my 19 years of being involved with the Poetry Postcard Fest would I have have thought someone would take the time to lash out at a postcard recipient with a hateful message, but here we are in 2025 and the culture is being bombarded by intensities from every...
by Splabman | Sep 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
For three years now since Sept 2022, I have written a day-long poem in a ritual that I’ve come to call the DaySong. There is much information about my history with this project here: https://paulenelson.com/daysong/ I tend to write two a year, one around Labor...
by Splabman | Sep 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Friend in Poetry, Labor Day is over. The 19th Poetry Postcard Fest is over and I’ve written another daysong. After doing one of these all-day poem-writing rituals, it’s about all I can think about for a while. Fortunately the good folks at the...
by Splabman | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
What an honor to interview Sharon Thesen. Of all the people I know, she is in the 99th percentile regarding poetry perception. She has informed my own aesthetic, uses poetry as a tool to make herself more human and is proud to be identified as a Cascadian poet. We sat...
