by Splabman | Feb 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Thanks to the efforts of my publisher Koon Woon and Goldfish Press, I have been awarded a grant from Poets & Writers to facilitate a poetry workshop Friday, April 15 from 1- 3 pm at the Alaska House Apartments community room in West Seattle. My topic will be...
by Splabman | Feb 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Andrew Hall and Adelia MacWilliam are two people helping me curate a series of online readings that were conceived of by SICA, the Subud International Cultural Association. Subud is the spiritual community with which I have been associated since 2004. The Zoomuse...
by Splabman | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am delighted to announce today that a book I finished ten years ago has just been published by Koon Woon’s Goldfish Press. Haibun de la Serna is the book. It consists of 99 neo-barroco haibun all starting with an epigraph by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. The book...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 26, 2022 | books
by Paul E Nelson June 2022 Review by Pablo Baler Paul Nelson’s Haibun moves with the spirit of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s greguerías, one of the unclassifiable micro-genres Gómez invented in his quest to evade (literary) capture. Equally, but uniquely, evasive,...
by Splabman | Nov 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have been fortunate to facilitate online workshops since Fall 2020. It is one of the great personal developments of the pandemic restructuring that we’re experiencing right now and, of course, if you want to know more about something, teach it. Starting from...