by Splabman | Oct 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is an update of the post that was used to promote the Zoom reading of the 1995 poem Dolphin Skull by Michael McClure. It was recorded 12N, Tuesday, October 20, 2020. My thanks to Amy Evans McClure for permission to post the tribute online. I met Michael McClure,...
by Splabman | Oct 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
They are 108 poems that “illuminate a hidden landscape in the names of children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.” Many of their deaths could have been prevented if not for the shoddy construction of the school buildings in which they attended. The poems are...
by Splabman | Oct 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
I missed out on Rattle’s Poets Respond AGAIN!
by Splabman | Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
I have been asked on occasion to write blurbs for friends and acquaintances and, like any other form of writing, it takes some practice. The first thing is to learn what NOT to blurb. Really, if it has your name on it, you should stand by the writing and it’s...
by Splabman | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m a little stunned by the amount of birthday wishes I am getting for my 59th and it seems a perfect day to share THE CARDS I GOT. Each year I create a photo or video of postcards I have received during the August POetry POstcard Fest. This year a couple of get...
by Splabman | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Since the beginning of 2019 I have been writing “prose sonnets” Matt Trease calls them. 14 line prose poems often with an epigraph and sometimes three. I saw the form first in the work of Jack Clarke, who was at SUNY-Buffalo for many years and felt I had...
