by Splabman | Feb 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to have work in the new anthology curated by the outgoing Washington Poet Laureate Rena Priest. A postcard poem from 2022 was selected and I got this note from the publisher, Empty Bowl Press:…We will have some early copies of the book for...
by Splabman | Feb 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
AWP is again having their annual convention in Seattle in 2023 and an expected 10,000 writers are headed here. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you!) The Cascadia Poetics Lab will have a booth at the book fair and I am reading at three off-site events and will...
by Splabman | Feb 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of my greatest mentors in the Subud community, Halstein Stralberg, died on November 6, 2022 and was memorialized in Seattle at the Subud House/Spring Street Center on Sunday, January 22, 2023. I talked on the occasion about how he was one of my two...
by Splabman | Feb 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
What a blessing it was December 28, 2022, to interview Shuri Kido, the accomplished Japanese poet and Zen practitioner. As I told he and his translators (Tomoyuki Endo, Forrest Gander) on that occasion, I don’t know of a higher calling at this time than building...
by Splabman | Jan 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
I was gifted another poem in the series FLEXIBLE MIND yesterday. That I am studying Zen now is a huge asset to this series of poems based on a Michael McClure poem from his series Touching The Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha. I was listening to a...
by Splabman | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
I am delighted to have been accorded the pleasure of moderating a panel of painters on the subject of Negative Capability. Details:Gallery 110 will be hosting a panel discussion featuring Carol Adelman Kennedy, Liz Kennedy, Alexis Ortiz, Jeffrey Heiman and Paul E....
