by Splabman | Aug 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
As a fan of the Black Mountain School of poetry, which was inspired by the revolutionary poetics of Charles Olson, the last rector of the famed outside educational institution in North Carolina in the mid-20th Century, I was delighted to see this come up in my inbox:...
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...
