by Splabman | Sep 3, 2014 | POPO
by Splabman | Sep 3, 2014 | POPO
I’ve blogged about the inspiration for this poem before but here is the text and postcard image and below find the Soundcloud widget.
by Splabman | Aug 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Today I had the honor of interviewing Jewell James of the Lummi Tribe about his effort to create awareness and organize opposition to the export of coal from Wyoming and Montana to developing markets in Asia. This issue was discussed at the 2nd Cascadia Poetry...
by Splabman | Aug 25, 2014 | POPO
It was quite a melange of cultures in Puebla during the 14th Subud World Congress August 1-17, 2014. (See my previous posts here and here.) To give you some sense of how diverse the event was, these lines went into a postcard poem written while in Puebla: & this...
by Splabman | Aug 25, 2014 | POPO
This poem continues from the last postcard poem and Levertov’s notion of the acts that serve as counterstrokes to the ills of the world. She would have been writing about WWII, a war in which she served as nurse so saw the atrocities first hand. She would also...
by Splabman | Aug 24, 2014 | POPO
As with all 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest poems, this one uses Levertov again as the source of its epigraph and the poem continues the theme of that quote and it weaves through familiar territory, including the time spent in the community garden (p-patch), the...
