by Splabman | Nov 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Zoom workshops we started in 2020, when we were already sick of the pandemic and not yet sick of Zoom, continue in their fourth year and frankly, I do not have the Zoom fatigue the mainstream media’s talking about. I think part of the reason for that is...
by Splabman | Nov 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
I am terribly saddened to report the death of Prince George poet Barry McKinnon. Barry and I, with Nadine Maestas and George Stanley edited the first anthology of Cascadia poetry Make it True: Poetry From Cascadia in 2015. Barry died on Monday, October 30, 2023 due to...
by Splabman | Oct 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
I presented this at the 7th Cascadia Poetry Festival, on 7—OCT—2023, at the Subud House/ Spring Street Center.”I’m located therefore I am.” — Kombu-merri elder, Mary Graham.Ah to be alive on a mid-September morn fording a...
by Splabman | Sep 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
I am delighted to be part of a poetry reading as part of The 14th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition at Seattle University. The reading will be Friday, September 8 at Pigott 101, which is essentially at 12th & Marion: 5:00 PM:...
by Splabman | Aug 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
My annual appearance at Bradner Gardens with the Jim O’Halloran group is happening August 12, 2023 at 6pm and Lorna Dee Cervantes has been a late addition to the bill. The garden is a jewel of the Seattle P-Patch program, though still not recovered from an arson...