by Splabman | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
The vision quests in our culture are usually unintentional. We have, by and large, rejected the ancient needs for rituals to mark rites of passage, but somewhere in the psyche, a human demands it to move on to the next level of existence, or fail trying. Last week I...
by Splabman | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Greg Bem and Amber Nelson have asked me to convene the first of many online panels on poetry they plan to produce starting March 24, 2013: Confirmed panelists: Daemond Arrindell. Poet, performer, workshop facilitator: Curator of the Seattle Poetry Slam, a raucous and...
by Splabman | Mar 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
One function of my practice of writing a daily American Sentence is as a journal. I will go back to these not for the literary merit, but to remind myself of life’s little trials and twists. Having a baby. Having a hernia. Not being able to pick up a baby...
by Splabman | Feb 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
There is something about the San Juan Islands that lets a Midwest boy understand he is in Cascadia. When the view out your hostel window is this: you know you’re not in corn country. And of course the view from Mt. Constitution (which we will not get to see this...
by Splabman | Feb 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
I got up early today and had some time to think (& write a poem) after doing my morning routine of journaling &c. (Someone in the household had coffee too late the night before and was up til 4A, cleaning the kitchen, doing other tasks and sleeping in!) That...
by Splabman | Feb 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
How does one communicate the essence of three decades of conducting interviews? I have had to do that, and quick, as a grant deadline is approaching and I save the worst of the grant writing process for last. I decided on a medley of some of the moments in those last...
