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...
by Splabman | Jun 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
I hope you’ll consider coming to Rainier Beach this Sunday from 4-7pm to celebrate the arts of poetry postcards and our little urban stream that we hope someday will be totally daylighted. What magic streams have and what persistence dxʷwuqʷəb (in Lushootseed)...
by Splabman | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
The interview I conducted with Sam O’Hana, a Ph.D. student at CUNY, is immensely critical and immensely validating for the work we do at the Cascadia Poetics Lab. At its core, the discussion is about whether writing is for people of means, or if it can be people...
by Splabman | May 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cascadia BioFi is happening Saturday May 17, and the Cascadia Poetics Lab will be presenting poetry with no admission charge at 7pm. The conference: “will bring together leaders at the edges of finance, circular economy, land regeneration, indigenous...
by Splabman | Apr 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are some benefits to having 8 editors of an anthology. It is 8 times the networking capacity. This is the case this week for the ongoing creative resistance to the current USAmerican administration, the poster boys for kakistocracy. & readings for Winter in...
by Splabman | Apr 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve known Matt Trease since he moved to Seattle in 2013. He’s from Tennessee and has spent time in Ohio, Milwaukee and Chicago, and left his academic track just short of his dissertation. We met via the Poetry Postcard Fest and he brought a collage...