by Splabman | Aug 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the car we listen to music almost exclusively on the old Ipod, which has remnants of the previous user’s musical tastes. (Thanks Rebecca!) Were it to be passed down again, and were the new owner to leave traces of MY audio excursions, there will be a great...
by Splabman | Aug 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Thinking of spontaneous composition during the 12th August POetry POstcard Fest while editing a Wanda Coleman interview from Fall 2000. She was one of our favorite visitors to the NW SPokenword LAB, as SPLAB was called back then in Auburn, Washington. It was not...
by Splabman | Aug 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
On August 18, 2018, from 6:30 to 8:30pm, I will again participate in what is becoming like a ritual for me, reading poems with Jim O’Halloran’s band at perhaps the best community garden in the city, Bradner Gardens. Jim sent this: Outdoors, on the lawn!...
by Splabman | Jul 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
A recent poem of mine was published in Cascadia Magazine. It is dedicated to the “Father of Cascadia” who suggested someone write a poem about this tragic incident. Thank you David McCloskey and Andrew Engelson.
by Splabman | Jul 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Mark Gonnerman was a participant in SPLAB’s Becoming Cascadian retreat last spring. In 1997 he organized a yearlong research workshop on Gary Snyder’s long poem Mountains and Rivers Without End. Writers, teachers and scholars from North America and Japan...
