by Splabman | Jul 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Faithful Blog Reader! The Winter in America (Again reading scheduled for tonight, Friday, July 11, 2025, has been canceled. The tour’s last stop is tomorrow, Saturday, July 12, at 2pm at the Columbia City Gallery, Among the featured poets are three from out...
by Splabman | Jul 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
An amazing testimonial for the Poetry Postcard Fest though it was not intended to serve that purpose. It is from Kosho Itagaki of Temple Eishoji (where I sit three days a week.) He writes: 🚤 Standing at the Brink Choosing Not Productivity, but Prayer We live...
by Splabman | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Matt Trease moved to Seattle, became a postcard poet, has long helped run the Margin Shift reading in Seattle, has been a board member of the Cascadia Poetics Lab for 8 years and is my good friend. All these reasons would be sufficient to interview him about The...
by Splabman | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you did not know, I participated in the Jukai ceremony on December 11, 2023, under the direction of Kosho Itagaki, at Temple Eishoji in Rainier Beach. I took refuge in the Buddha, the dharma and the sangha and was given the dharma name Koho Ryukan. It may have been...
by Splabman | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
My appreciation goes out to Melissa Lemay, who turned the tables and interviewed ME about doing interviews, American Sentences, the Poetry Postcard Fest and Allen Ginsberg, among other topics. That people are intimidated by ME because I’ve conducted so many...
by Splabman | Jun 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
(Image: “Inga” (Detail) 65 x 85” acrylic on canvas, c.2012 © Frank Galuszka) I’m delighted to be an Editor-at-Large for a new journal out of Northern California called En*trance. It can be pronounced two ways, which says something about the kind of wide...
