by Splabman | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m going over the manuscript of these poems written last year, a few at a time, and marveling at how prolific was one weekend retreat in Marblemount, Washington. Set and setting, eh? Using each of the 100 poems of the classic Japanese anthology as a prompt, or...
by Splabman | Feb 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
“And that is what a poet Is, children, one who creates Sacramental relationships That last always.” – Kenneth Rexroth Aside from the signature, this is how Rexroth ended his epistle “Letter to William Carlos Williams.” And while this statement seems to me to...
by Splabman | Feb 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
A happy birthday today to SPLAB Co-Founder Danika Dale Dinsmore, who co-founded the SPLAB project with me in 1997 (not to be confused with the organization that now uses SPLAB as its name.) In her honor I went to an anagram-generator to find ideas for this Present...
by Splabman | Feb 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
As I noted in my last haibun post, walks = poetry. If you do not get a poem when walking, you have not walked long enough. Ask Charles Reznikoff, who was well-known for taking walks of 15 to 20 miles. 26 Moonlit Night The trees’ shadows lie in black pools on the...
by Splabman | Feb 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
It was interesting when first meeting San Francisco poet Kevin Killian, whose name I would occasionally see on the SUNY-Buffalo poetics listserv years before social media would allow us to keep connected to one another. He knew me as: “The guy who interviews...
by Splabman | Feb 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
The pub crawl is a tradition that goes back to the 19th century. A group gets together and drinks in a series of bars. Maybe the participants are new to a town. In Australia they had over 4,000 people do a pub crawl once, a Guinness world record. LIT Crawls go back...
