by Splabman | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Matt Trease moved to Seattle, became a postcard poet, has long helped run the Margin Shift reading in Seattle, has been a board member of the Cascadia Poetics Lab for 8 years and is my good friend. All these reasons would be sufficient to interview him about The...
by Splabman | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you did not know, I participated in the Jukai ceremony on December 11, 2023, under the direction of Kosho Itagaki, at Temple Eishoji in Rainier Beach. I took refuge in the Buddha, the dharma and the sangha and was given the dharma name Koho Ryukan. It may have been...
by Splabman | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
My appreciation goes out to Melissa Lemay, who turned the tables and interviewed ME about doing interviews, American Sentences, the Poetry Postcard Fest and Allen Ginsberg, among other topics. That people are intimidated by ME because I’ve conducted so many...
by Splabman | Jun 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
(Image: “Inga” (Detail) 65 x 85” acrylic on canvas, c.2012 © Frank Galuszka) I’m delighted to be an Editor-at-Large for a new journal out of Northern California called En*trance. It can be pronounced two ways, which says something about the kind of wide...
by Splabman | Jun 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
I hope you’ll consider coming to Rainier Beach this Sunday from 4-7pm to celebrate the arts of poetry postcards and our little urban stream that we hope someday will be totally daylighted. What magic streams have and what persistence dxʷwuqʷəb (in Lushootseed)...
