by Splabman | Aug 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
A very astute review of a new book by a poet that MANY poets love to hate has been published. It’s a book by Kent Johnson called Because of Poetry, I Have a Really Big House. The reviewer is Norman Finkelstein and one passage of the review states: …At this...
by Splabman | Aug 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
My good friend Ian Boyden is a brilliant artist who has a new book of poems to be released next month by Wesleyan University Press. FYI: A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations by Ian Boyden Wesleyan University Press (buy now) 136 pp. 2 b&w photos. 5.5...
by Splabman | Aug 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
by Splabman | Jul 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
It has been the core of SPLAB’s work since 2012 to engage in a bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia. We owe a huge debt to David McCloskey’s groundbreaking work, his evocative maps and vision and to Peter Berg’s vision and work on the...
by Splabman | Jul 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
I once attend the the Blue River Writers Gathering, a biannual gathering at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest whose purpose, according to their website, is: to take counsel from each other and from the forest, to deepen our sense of community with other writers and...