by Splabman | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Michael Boughn is a brilliant poet who edited Robert Duncan’s mythical H.D. Book, studied with Robin Blaser and co-edited the dangerous website Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, now archived via Simon Fraser University, where Boughn studied. We caught up to him...
by Splabman | Feb 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
I had a flurry of activity about a month ago. I prepared a talk for a poet’s society with which I was engaged for a couple of months to serve as a sort of “dress rehearsal” for a talk at a conference I had a hand in planning. My talk was about...
by Splabman | Dec 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Wonderful to see the review of Letters for Olson by Brooks Johnson in Hyperallergenic and just to have this book in the world. The headline of the article states well this book’s theme: In Letters for Olson, the reader is reminded repeatedly that the...
by Splabman | Oct 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
On Friday, October 14, 2016, I had the good fortune to interview Jeanne Heuving about her new book: The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics. That she was writing about Projective Verse was of great interest to me and reading the book and getting her insights...
by Splabman | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
I went to hear Nate Mackey this evening (Wednesday, Sept 30) at the UW and I strongly encourage Puget Sound area literature fans to attend his reading and conversation Thursday, Oct 1 as part of the annual UW Bothell Convergence on Poetics program. His talk tonight...
