by Splabman | May 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
The discussion I’d hoped for after the first and second Cascadia Poetry Festivals, is beginning to manifest in the wake of the 3rd iteration of the fest and the first in Canada. (Nanaimo, B.C. of all places!) This is evidenced by intelligent blog posts inspired...
by Splabman | May 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sometimes there are events in my life that are so intense, or have so much action packed into a short time, it takes me a long time to write about them. Having founded a poetry festival for the Cascadia bioregion in which I have lived since 1988, my attendance at the...
by Splabman | May 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
My sister Barb once gave me a T-shirt designed to help me remember my roots, my hometown and the pride in which those of us from the Second City have in our town. The message was the same as that pictured below, though the design was different. You’re not likely...
by Splabman | May 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
On Sunday, April 19, 2015, I interviewed Patricia Failing, Professor Emerita of the University of Washington about an exhibition she is curating in Denver at the Clyfford Still Museum. Clyfford Still: The Colville Reservation and Beyond, 1934-1939 features thirty...
by Splabman | Apr 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Maybe it’s my Virgo nature that allows me to enjoy vicariously the lives of people whose work I admire but whose lifestyles have aspects I would not care to replicate. I would not say the phrase “Health Nut” is accurate, given my penchant for chorizo...
by Splabman | Apr 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
It takes a special (or odd) person to live in Alaska, especially by choice and not by birth. The long winter nights would be one reason. I can imagine how all that darkness would be hard to take. Hell, it’s bad enough in Seattle. But then add hallucinations and...
