by Splabman | Jul 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
An elegy for my friend Brian Love, who helped run SPLAB in Auburn 1997-2004, helped me with my syndicated public affairs radio show and was killed by a drunk driver on the morning of July 5, 2013.
by Splabman | Jul 5, 2013 | POPO
I’m getting ready for the August Poetry Postcard Fest, which starts on the 27th. It’s the 7th year we’ve done this and after seeing a link to a talk Ted Berrigan gave in 1979 on his Sonnets, I had a hunch I should go through some old postcards to see...
by Splabman | Jun 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
by Splabman | Jun 24, 2013 | POPO
The absolute tranquility is the present moment. Though it is at this moment, there is no limit to this moment, and herein is eternal delight. – Hui-nen (First published June 24, 2013) In 2000 I was invited to participate in the 3:15 Experiment, which involved writing...
by Splabman | Jun 22, 2013 | POPO
From Brendan McBreen: Once more it is almost August! The August Poetry Postcard Project is an exercise in responding to other poets. You write a poem a day for the month of August, write it on a postcard and send it to the next name on your list. When you receive a...
by Splabman | Jun 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Am reading The Practice of Outside again, again from the Collected Jack Spicer so I can see what notes I made the first time I read it. (It has since been published in Robin Blaser’s Collected Essays The Fire.) So much more is available to me now, which is a...
