by Splabman | Oct 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Earshot Jazz is in full swing, no pun intended. Seattle’s long-running annual festival is an orgy for the ears and soul and I missed most of the Thelonious Monk @ 100 events, which is a shame, but poetry festivals do take a lot of my energy. Bhakti and I were...
by Splabman | Oct 13, 2017 | POPO
The anthology 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards is out in the world and the three co-editors were among the poets reading from the book and discussing their practice of creating, composing and mailing poetry postcards. Ina Roy-Faderman, Judy Kleinberg and your...
by Splabman | Oct 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am re-publishing this on the day of the 5th Cascadia Poetry Festival in Tacoma, WA, at the Washington State History Museum. SCHEDULE REGISTRATION. Why Cascadia? Why Poetry? “Man is estranged from that which he is most familiar.” – Heraclitus...
by Splabman | Oct 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
This I posted on Facebook, but thought I should post here: The Death Rattle Writer’s Festival Day One happened and Janet Holmes had the highlight, for me, a touching poem about grieving the loss of her late husband. Nothing sentimental or maudlin. How poetry can...
by Splabman | Oct 4, 2017 | POPO
It used to be that the summer in Seattle had very little in the way of literary arts events. When Labor Day weekend came around, poets got caught up at Bumbershoot at the Bookfair and the Sunday night Red Sky Theater Open Mic. A new literary season would begin. Not so...
