by Splabman | Jul 24, 2018 | POPO
293 people are registered for the 12th August POetry POstcard Fest in 2018. Included are participants from Alberta (1), Alabama (9), Arkansas (1), Arizona (1), British Columbia (1), California (26), Colorado (5), Connecticut (3), Florida (1), Georgia (2), Hawaii (1),...
by Splabman | Jul 12, 2018 | POPO
Reading Mark Gonnerman’s book A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End I came to Tim Dean’s essay on The Other Voice. In the essay he states that in his 40 year epic poem, since Snyder: …harmonizes a vast...
by Splabman | Jul 8, 2018 | POPO
Two editors of 56 Days of August and two contributors gathered yesterday at the annual Poets in the Park event in Redmond, Washington. Ina Roy-Faderman, Your Humble Narrator, Joanna Thomas and Matt Trease were the facilitators of an intimate workshop during which time...
by Splabman | Jul 3, 2018 | POPO
I have been getting caught up on some of Sam Hamill’s work since his death back in April. Last night reading from his 1981 book of “casual essays” or “over-the-shoulder” glances he titled At Home in the World, I came across an essay...
by Splabman | Jun 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
I finished cataloging the IPiPP/SPLAB archives today, Saturday, June 23, 2018, at 5:36pm, thanks to a 4Culture grant and I am digitizing as much as I can before the audio is transferred to its new home. (Details on that coming before long.) On September 28, 1997, a...