by Splabman | Nov 8, 2013 | POPO
My posts on the August 2013 Seattle visit of Morrocan poet and Beat scholar El Habib Louai were quite long, (archived here) so I am creating this post in the hopes that viewers of this blog will take a listen to the interview we did at the top of Desolation Peak,...
by Splabman | Nov 1, 2013 | POPO
I have posted all my 2013 POstcard POems in one spot. See: https://wp.me/P1Xnkd-1h7. For more on the fest, see: https://poetrypostcards.blogspot.com/ For the postcard fest Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/17361938720/ The 2014 call will go out shortly...
by Splabman | Oct 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
(This essay was recently published in Zen Monster.) (download pdf for best formatting) A Little History: The Deeply Personal as Political (Some notes on a book by Ammiel Alcalay) There were two events in the mid 90s which really opened my eyes to the power of poetry....
by Splabman | Oct 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Brenda Hillman reads at Open Books tomorrow at 3p and I first met her at Open Books in 2010, I think it was. She has just completed her tetralogy of meditations on the elements, ending up with Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. I had the good fortune to facilitate a...
by Splabman | Oct 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Who could resist the term meteorologist Cliff Mass is using for this deeply socked-in fog situation we find ourselves cutting through here in Seattle? Fogmageddon. Not me. Combine that with the beauty which seems to stand out in the fog around here AND other current...
by Splabman | Oct 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Open Books: Poetry in Conversation, No. 1 (pdf) I’d meant to write a blog post about the first in what promises to be a very interesting series of discussions about books of modern poetry at Seattle’s all poetry bookstore, Open Books: A Poem Emporium in the...
