by Splabman | Feb 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
When Sam Hamill read at Spring Street Center back in November 2012 to celebrate and display his collaborations with the painter, book maker and artist Ian Boyden (see this link) Ian gave me a copy of a book on his work entitled: Flowing Movement: The Material...
by Splabman | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Each morning I look over last year’s journal entry for the same day and it had been a year since I walked through Washington Park Arboretum with Jim Demetre. Jim’s an amateur botanist whom I met during The Long Walk in 2011, and we’ve kept in touch...
by Splabman | Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
I read this poem Tuesday at the Wedgewood Ale House to good response and so am posting it here. Yes, it’s another in the Haibun de la Serna series, of which I envision 99. It’s also part of the ongoing Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia. Give a listen....
by Splabman | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
78 in a series of 99 neo-barroco haibun written after Ramón Gomez de la Serna. This one inspired by E. Richard Atleo’s book Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview. The holistic way of thinking seems to be so natural in my own thought, yet I know there is much that...