by Splabman | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
The organizing topic for the next workshop I will facilitate comes from a notion of Robin Blaser’s about serial form being a: “Sequence of Energies.” In this workshop we take the methods and the organismic stance toward poetics (& life) covered...
by Splabman | Feb 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Chick Corea, Jazz Pianist Who Expanded the Possibilities of the Genre, Dead at 79 “Nobody was more open, more finely tuned to the moment…” quote from John Mayer, Rolling Stone...
by Splabman | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have known Andrew Schelling since he and Anne Waldman visited the original SPLAB in Auburn in 1997, giving a reading there 6 days after their dear friend Allen Ginsberg died. I have interviewed him on several occasions, even in person at Elliott Bay Book Company and...
by Splabman | Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
This post has been updated to include video from the January 22, 2021 talk: I met Ian Boyden about ten or so years ago through our mutual friend Sam Hamill and we’ll always be marked by that experience. (Sure, we have some less than flattering Sam stories, but...
by Splabman | Jan 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
This post has been edited to include video of the reading of the seminal Charles Olson essay Projective Verse: It was October 1995 and I had just finished lunch with Michael McClure, the day I met him. It was after an interview we conducted at the old KZOK-FM studios...
