by Splabman | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Xi Chuan gave a stellar reading at the Seattle Central library on Monday, January 9, 2012. Chris Higashi was a gracious host and Paul Manfredi a fine reader of Xi Chuan’s work in English, (translated by Lucas Klein) reading poems after the Chinese. Xi...
by Splabman | Jan 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
See me read it with Jim O’Halloran on flute: Line breaks here are not right, but what the hell? It’s #49 in a series of 99 haibun inspired by Ramon Gomez de la Serna. 49. 49th Parallel Blues (After Nate Mackey) The function of waves is to bring the salvage...
by Splabman | Dec 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
It is awkward to write on this day that my country’s President, for whom I wept on Election Day 2008, is signing into law a bill which allows any U.S. President to label someone a terrorist, eroding yet another constitutional right. Perhaps there is a...
by Splabman | Dec 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
There are still two more sentences for me to write & complete eleven years of the daily practice of writing one American Sentence every day since January 1, 2001. To read more in this form, see:...
by Splabman | Dec 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
For some reason, I did not get my Pacific Rim Poetics essay transferred over from OrganicPoetry.org to this here site. Today I corrected that. Here are the two epigraphs: If I open a magazine of contemporary poetry I rarely hear John Dryden, but almost always Li Po. –...
