by Splabman | Jul 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Susan McCaslin has a wonderful piece that was posted yesterday to the Cascadia Poetry Fest blog: Trailblazing with Blaser by Susan McCaslin (pdf) From the moment I heard Robin Blaser lecture in my first graduate course at Simon Fraser University, I was drawn like a...
by Splabman | Jul 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
More “alternate takes” in this series which I have been serializing here and which is over 18 months old. More poems about Zappa, my late cat and my reaction. You can’t see the “Z” anymore but you get the idea in the photo to the left. I...
by Splabman | Jul 27, 2015 | POPO
The signup for the 9th August Poetry Postcard Fest is final and the list has been sent to all participants. The total number of participants is down from an all-time high in 2014 – 423, to 208 in 2015, but the addition of a small signup fee discouraged some and...
by Splabman | Jul 24, 2015 | POPO
I was taking my corridor walk June 23, 2015, and was stunned by the reflection of the sun on wavelets of Lake Washington. I tried to get a decent video capture of the phenomenon (after looking at a Seagull I thought was a Blue Heron) and you get some idea from that. I...
by Splabman | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am running this comment (from this post) as a post on its own just to take time to appreciate the sentiment. It looks like the fest this year will have less than half the participants, but if the poems are better and the participation more consistent, it will have...
by Splabman | Jul 20, 2015 | POPO
A few random questions posed by participants, or would-be participants, in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. By the way, this is your last call for registration as that ends July 27 at 12:01 a.m. 1) Can I start now or do I have to wait until August? By all means...
