by Splabman | Jul 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to be part of a literary arts event Sunday, July 9 from 5-8pm. The Tunnel: A Literary and Arts Crawl is the mastermind of Greg Bem, who will be moving from Seattle to Spokane for a job this summer. We will miss his invention, his innovation...
by Splabman | Jun 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
For three full seasons (October-June, 2020-2023) I have conducted online workshops designed to allow poets who have participated in the Poetry Postcard Fest to go a little deeper into the process of learning how to revise less. The last workshop ended a deep dive into...
by Splabman | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
After I suggested this title as the June 15, 2023, talk to be given at the Altar/Alter project, I realized that what I meant was more like milagro or folk charm, though one could make the case that poetry postcards are like little sacred planes on which we place our...
by Splabman | Jun 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
I am delighted to be part of an ambitious event being produced by Greg Bem, Eric Acosta, Amy Hirayama, and Denny Stern. Three of the four are postcard poets and all are energetic members of the Seattle literary community. Altar/Alter is: “an installation and...
by Splabman | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
I have a practice of reading my journal entry from the same day of the previous year and love when poems I’d forgotten I’d written show up and still have some potency. Sam always warned me not to be in a “rush to publish” and it was some of his...