by Splabman | Apr 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
I remember asking Michael McClure on the phone what it was like to start writing in Projective Verse. I think I had realized by that time I was writing in that manner, in which extreme concentration and dedication to the moment was preferred over extensive revision....
by Splabman | Apr 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I saw that Nikky Finney was coming to town for a reading/chat for Seattle Arts & Lectures (April 25, 2013), I thought it would be a good idea to find and digitize the interview we did in 1999. At the time she was Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the...
by Splabman | Mar 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
“I LOVE the Canadian side of Cascadia as it deals with poetry. In Victoria, Vancouver, Nelson and elsewhere there are retired poets constructing Mesostics, discussing Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser and generally being open to more innovative work. This includes...
by Splabman | Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Trev Carolan is the editor of Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature. Paul Nelson interviewed him July 15, 2011, at the Prophouse Cafe in Vancouver to talk about the book. Here is the introduction: If artists are the antennae of the race, then the...
by Splabman | Mar 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Mer, Ella and I left Seattle Thursday morning for Vancouver for the premiere screening of a documentary on the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference, The Line Has Shattered. It was being screened at SFU’s downtown campus and I had been invited by SFU Special...
