by Splabman | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Ginsberg Marathon this year happens Saturday, June 2 at SPLAB and may be SPLAB’s last big event in Columbia City. Band of Poets is featured along with Mickey O’Connor. (See photos). This from BoP’s John Burgess: Set List for Ginsberg Marathon...
by Splabman | May 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Greg Bem, Jason Conger & Joe Chiveney, poets I met through SPLAB, liked my idea of doing a cover of a Four Horsemen Sound Poem. I had seen the clip from Ron Mann’s documentary, Poetry in Motion (1981) and proposed the idea of performing it at the Breadline...
by Splabman | May 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
I was fortunate enough to have some poems published in the latest edition of The Cafe Review out of Portland, Maine. There are some other very fine poets published in this edition. See: They selected three haibun of mine from the series Haibun de la Serna. I am...
by Splabman | May 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
I performed with Jim O’Halloran (flute), Greg Powers (tuba) and Michael Nicolella (guitar) yesterday on a Mother’s Day program at the Mount Baker Community Clubhouse. The new Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken also read and closed the program. The theme was...
by Splabman | May 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
60. Hymn to Indian Plum (pdf)
by Splabman | May 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
54. Black Dragon Year (see 54. Black Dragon Year for proper lineation) The heart measures in blood everything that happens. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna The dragon stays stuck to lampposts at the boundaries, but looks like a mountain lizard. The ancient poet stays in...