by Splabman | Apr 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
The 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival is three weeks away in Nanaimo, BC, and unlike the first two, it is in Canada and it is being run by people who attended at least one of the previous events. This is an exciting development and thanks to David Fraser, Kim Goldberg, Kim...
by Splabman | Nov 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am set to leave for Victoria on the Clipper and make a presentation Thursday morning at the Western Literature Association’s annual conference on a panel with Andy Meyer and Nadine Maestas. They added to our panel a woman doing a paper on Tess Gallagher. What...
by Splabman | May 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the most powerful events of the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival (Cascadia II) was the panel: Cascadian Poetics: Innovations from Here. (Video of the panel here.) Nadine Maestas facilitated with a deft touch and brought out the best in Joanne Kyger, George...
by Splabman | Jan 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
We celebrated 20 years of SPLAB last Saturday at the Spring Street Center in Seattle, which is also the Seattle Subud House, my spiritual home. I was pleasantly surprised by the good turnout and happy to unveil the schedule for the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival which I...
by Splabman | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was delighted to get the email that alerted me to the latest edition of Seattle’s Best Little Magazine (according to “The Stranger.”) That my pals Greg Bem and Nadine Maestas were in it was good enough for me to plunk down my $11 digital Yankee...
