by Splabman | Sep 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
For three years now since Sept 2022, I have written a day-long poem in a ritual that I’ve come to call the DaySong. There is much information about my history with this project here: https://paulenelson.com/daysong/ I tend to write two a year, one around Labor...
by Splabman | Sep 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Friend in Poetry, Labor Day is over. The 19th Poetry Postcard Fest is over and I’ve written another daysong. After doing one of these all-day poem-writing rituals, it’s about all I can think about for a while. Fortunately the good folks at the...
by Splabman | Nov 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
I have submitted my poems to the upcoming anthology Winter in America (Again. The project was conceived of by Katie Sarah Zale and modeled after Sam Hamill’s “Poets Against The War.” Greg Bem’s Carbonation Press of Spokane is set to publish the...
by Splabman | Nov 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Today we present the video version of the interview I conducted with Jane Falk and Mary Paniccia Carden on the book Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger. Kyger is one of the most underrated poets of the post WWII period with a deep sense of place, a...
by Splabman | Aug 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was fortunate to be invited to teach spontaneous poetry methods at Holden Village, which is a spiritual retreat in the North Cascades. It is a former mining town and is a 45 minute drive from the Lucerne Landing on Lake Chelan, which itself is a 4 hour boat ride...
