by Splabman | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was saddened to hear the news via Facebook that Judith Roche died at her home in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood tonight. (Thursday, November 14, 2019). I had a chance to visit her last week and she was not able to speak after having several strokes. I attempted...
by Splabman | Nov 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
The second and third interviews with former Catholic Nun Mary Norbert Körte were conducted by your humble narrator on Friday, and Saturday, October 25 and 26, 2019. While the woodstove fire crackled in the background, she elaborated on her family because she felt that...
by Splabman | Oct 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
I will be heading to extreme Southern Cascadia Thursday, and go out of the bioregion to read in Ukiah, California. I am headed south to meet and interview Mary Norbert Körte, a poet, and former Catholic nun who had a spiritual epiphany attending the 1965 Berkeley...
by Splabman | Oct 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
I loved hearing Michael McClure and Allen Ginsberg at Naropa in 1976. See: Allen Ginsberg & Michael McClure – 1976 Naropa “Retrospective” Reading and thinking that may have been the visit where Michael did his presentation on the Personal...
by Splabman | Oct 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
I had the good fortune to visit Bill Porter, the translator of ancient Chinese poetry and sacred texts, and interview him at his Port Townsend home on August 28, 2019. His latest books at the time were Cathay Revisited & Dancing with the Dead, Stonehouse’s...
