A happy birthday today to SPLAB Co-Founder Danika Dale Dinsmore, who co-founded the SPLAB project with me in 1997 (not...
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Hillman City Haibun (Walkin’, Lichen)
As I noted in my last haibun post, walks = poetry. If you do not get a poem when walking, you have not walked long...
After The Japanese 33-36
It was interesting when first meeting San Francisco poet Kevin Killian, whose name I would occasionally see on the...
Hillman, Columbia City Lit Crawl
The pub crawl is a tradition that goes back to the 19th century. A group gets together and drinks in a series of bars....
Hillman City Haibun 5 (White Cat Privilege)
It's the odd experience successfully translated into language that often makes a good American Sentence. A long walk...
After the Japanese 29-32
Today, the next segment of the 100 poems written using each poem in the classic Japanese poetry anthology (Ogura...
José Kozer Interview
This past January 18 and 19 (2015) I had the great pleasure of going to Hallendale Beach, Florida, and having access...
Hillman City Haibun 4 (Sleep, Crackers)
It's a toss-up for the best American Sentence this week. Yesterday's pertains to a new health condition, or at least a...
After The Japanese 25-28
In this stretch of the project of writing inspired by the classic Japanese poetry anthology, I start in memory and...
Four Hoarse Men Ride Again
A couple of years ago I became part of a group of poets that sought to explore poetry from the angle of pure sound in...
Hillman City Haibun 3 (Seattle Smells)
Just back from Miami where I had the good fortune to have access to the great Cuban poet José Kozer and do an...
After the Japanese 21-24
It's a very special time in Cascadia, mid-winter (almost typed "mind) with the signs of spring beginning to push up...