by Splabman | Dec 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
On December 24, 2019, the Seattle Times published its obituary for Judith Roche. An excerpt: “My basic thing is that poetry is approaching the holy and it’s a translation of the sacred and it says the unsayable,” said Roche in a 2015 interview. “It’s an impossible...
by Splabman | Nov 30, 2019 | POPO
I am looking to interview at least ten postcard participants in the next few weeks to create some videos for a new PoPo website that will replace the current page on my cluttered personal site. Interviews will be (mostly) uniform, with standard questions and conducted...
by Splabman | Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Thank you Paul Constant, at the Seattle Review of Books, for the kind and (I think) perceptive review of an anthology I had a hand in bringing into the world. Make It True meets Medusario is indeed a “mashup” and Constant, who also had kind words about my...
by Splabman | Nov 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
My elegy for Judith Roche has been published by the South Seattle Emerald: Sunday Stew: No Map, No Jud (for Judith Roche) See also: Judith Roche...
by Splabman | Nov 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
I had the good fortune to read AT LEAST three times during Bill Mawhinney’s tenure as producer of the monthly Northwind Poetry series in Port Townsend over the last 13 years. That he came out of the New American Poetry, and was knowledgeable about poets like...
