by Splabman | Oct 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
For Immediate Release October 10, 2015 For more information, contact: Kevin Atticks, director 410-617-5529 apprenticehouse@loyola.edu Paul Nelson, author (206) 422.5002 splabman (at) gmail (dot) com American Sentences: Compendium of American Haiku...
by Splabman | Oct 12, 2015 | POPO
This poem reminds me of the on and off dialog I have been having with a Canadian poet who is down on post-modernism because much of it is: “gibberish” in his view, but whose own work is clichéd and sentimental. How would one translate whale speak into a poem. It...
by Splabman | Oct 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
On the 60th anniversary of the Beat Generation coming out party, the Six Gallery reading, my 14+ year project American Sentences made it into the world as a published book. That copies were shipped by the publisher to the wrong address is telling, but that they ended...
by Splabman | Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
She’s apparently in the literary “mainstream” now, according to The Guardian in a typo-laden, but important piece dated Oct 1, 2015, but Eileen Myles has been a real writer, with tremendous depth and perception for decades how and great to see her...
by Splabman | Oct 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Watching the posts and the likes and the ads float by on Facebook is fascinating to me and I check in a few times a day. I can do a Google search for something like DIVORCE or CALIFORNIA TRAFFIC TICKET and see ads related to those “interests.” I hate to...
by Splabman | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
I went to hear Nate Mackey this evening (Wednesday, Sept 30) at the UW and I strongly encourage Puget Sound area literature fans to attend his reading and conversation Thursday, Oct 1 as part of the annual UW Bothell Convergence on Poetics program. His talk tonight...
