by Splabman | Jun 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
In the year 2001, after the tragic events of that September, and only about five years under my belt as a curator/facilitator of events featuring visiting poets, I had the good fortune to organize a visit by legendary poet, anthologist, essayist, Jerome Rothenberg....
by Splabman | Jun 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
The road has its own demands. Make plans, the road reserves the right to laugh. Hail. Close. Be patrolled with USAmerican religious trooper zeal and yet you go 80+ under sun & big sky. You can’t even buy a small Trinidad in the Country Store and another...
by Splabman | Jun 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’ve re-watched the video of the panel on which Robert Bringhurst participated at the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival. This was the third iteration of the fest and was staged in Nanaimo, BC, April 30-May 3, 2015. The panel featured one of the most vivid moments...
by Splabman | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
The poems after more than a year now, seem so out of place when viewed from this “heat wave” point of view. (84 now as I write, which is over 78, the temp at which Seattleites tend to gripe.) And references to a Charles Lloyd album, to an experience I...
by Splabman | Jun 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Joanne Kyger Interview in Bolinas, CA, Memorial Day, 2015 One of the major women poets of the SF Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA, studied with Pound scholar Hugh Kenner at UC Santa Barbara and moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became...
by Splabman | Jun 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
The purpose of my recent (massive) road trip to the SW and back was to visit Amalio Madueño, who has lived there since the early 90s. I met him in the late 90s when I attended three consecutive editions of the Taos Poetry Circus, which Amalio ran for ten years. It was...
