by Splabman | Jul 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
It might be the 56 Days of August, but I’ll take a break from writing postcards for a moment to read at two local cultural events that I’ve been part of before. Margin Shift: Friends in Poetry has been a “movable feast” for the better part of a...
by Splabman | Jul 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to be part of a literary arts event Sunday, July 9 from 5-8pm. The Tunnel: A Literary and Arts Crawl is the mastermind of Greg Bem, who will be moving from Seattle to Spokane for a job this summer. We will miss his invention, his innovation...
by Splabman | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
If not the culmination of a 40+ year serial poetry effort by perhaps the world’s leading living practitioner of that stance toward poem making, it is a huge new hunk. Matt Trease and I look forward to digging into Nathaniel Mackey’s Double Trio twice a...
by Splabman | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Since the beginning of 2019 I have been writing “prose sonnets” Matt Trease calls them. 14 line prose poems often with an epigraph and sometimes three. I saw the form first in the work of Jack Clarke, who was at SUNY-Buffalo for many years and felt I had...
by Splabman | Jun 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to be doing another Zoom-Because-of-Shelter-in-Place reading, this time for Margin Shift, Thursday June 18 at 7pm. As its name implies, Margin Shift is the most diverse reading series in Seattle, but also the one that features the most challenging...