by Splabman | Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
I have been asked on occasion to write blurbs for friends and acquaintances and, like any other form of writing, it takes some practice. The first thing is to learn what NOT to blurb. Really, if it has your name on it, you should stand by the writing and it’s...
by Splabman | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m a little stunned by the amount of birthday wishes I am getting for my 59th and it seems a perfect day to share THE CARDS I GOT. Each year I create a photo or video of postcards I have received during the August POetry POstcard Fest. This year a couple of get...
by Splabman | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Since the beginning of 2019 I have been writing “prose sonnets” Matt Trease calls them. 14 line prose poems often with an epigraph and sometimes three. I saw the form first in the work of Jack Clarke, who was at SUNY-Buffalo for many years and felt I had...
by Splabman | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Huge thanks (again) to Tim Green of Rattle Magazine who wrote about my practice of American Sentences for The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California. The article is called: I love how Tim changes the narrative from a capitalist point of view relating a personal...
by Splabman | Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
9.11.2020 – He’s at the boat launch pier, w/ rod & reel, fishing for smoked salmon....
