by Splabman | Feb 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was tagged by C.E. Putnam for this project, the Next Big Thing self-interview. I tagged 6 other writers whose work I admire and will post links to their answers once they send them to me. The trick for me was that I have three book projects percolating. Actually,...
by Splabman | Feb 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
It was early in 2012 that I finally acted on my interest in sound poetry. I had heard Dada sound poems, Jerome Rothenberg’s recitation of the sound poetry of Hugo Ball, the Canadian group the Four Horsemen and Michael McClure’s Ghost Tantras, composed in a...
by Splabman | Feb 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
When Sam Hamill read at Spring Street Center back in November 2012 to celebrate and display his collaborations with the painter, book maker and artist Ian Boyden (see this link) Ian gave me a copy of a book on his work entitled: Flowing Movement: The Material...
by Splabman | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
A second and, hopefully, shorter post about my walk with Jim Demetre at Washington Park Arboretum. What a place this is and late winter is one of the most inspiring times to go, giving those who have survived a long winter the hope that the groundhog is wrong and...
by Splabman | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Each morning I look over last year’s journal entry for the same day and it had been a year since I walked through Washington Park Arboretum with Jim Demetre. Jim’s an amateur botanist whom I met during The Long Walk in 2011, and we’ve kept in touch...
by Splabman | Feb 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
So I have to tell the story of finding out about my surgery date for the two, count ‘em, TWO hernias I have being diagnosed with. (A bilateral inguinal hernia and an abdominal hernia.) I got a call from the nurse yesterday. Let’s call her Joanie. She told me I should...
