by Splabman | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Xi Chuan gave a stellar reading at the Seattle Central library on Monday, January 9, 2012. Chris Higashi was a gracious host and Paul Manfredi a fine reader of Xi Chuan’s work in English, (translated by Lucas Klein) reading poems after the Chinese. Xi...
by Splabman | Jan 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
See me read it with Jim O’Halloran on flute: Line breaks here are not right, but what the hell? It’s #49 in a series of 99 haibun inspired by Ramon Gomez de la Serna. 49. 49th Parallel Blues (After Nate Mackey) The function of waves is to bring the salvage...
by Splabman | Dec 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
It is awkward to write on this day that my country’s President, for whom I wept on Election Day 2008, is signing into law a bill which allows any U.S. President to label someone a terrorist, eroding yet another constitutional right. Perhaps there is a...
by Splabman | Dec 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
There are still two more sentences for me to write & complete eleven years of the daily practice of writing one American Sentence every day since January 1, 2001. To read more in this form, see:...
by Splabman | Dec 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
For some reason, I did not get my Pacific Rim Poetics essay transferred over from OrganicPoetry.org to this here site. Today I corrected that. Here are the two epigraphs: If I open a magazine of contemporary poetry I rarely hear John Dryden, but almost always Li Po. –...
by Splabman | Dec 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
I have begun harvesting my American Sentences from this past year. It’s always a blast from my recent past to do this and this is eleven years now of writing one of these 17 syllable poems every day. Here is the first decent one of the year: 1.12.11 – Just...
