by Splabman | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Cascadian Zen” is an event at Seattle University on February 14 and 15, 2020 that’s organized loosely around exploring the relationship between the Cascadian bioregion as it intersects with Zen ideas, practices, and aesthetics. A group of writers will gather to...
by Splabman | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was a very humbling experience for me Friday, December 14, 2018, to hear very intelligent and considerate people talk about different aspects of SPLAB’s 25 years in existence, with a special focus on our old days (pre-2009) in Auburn and the interview...
by Splabman | Nov 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
In August of 2017 I had the good fortune to be invited to a reading to celebrate a new book by Jason Wirth. A professor of Philosophy at Seattle University and Zen Priest, Jason’s new book is Mountains, Rivers and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen...
by Splabman | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Greg Bem is the publisher of Carbonation Press and the new anthology Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election. He got an email from someone asking him why the parenthesis before the word “again” was not closed. He said: “ask...
by Splabman | Jan 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
It was an enormous task to create an anthology, with an open call and eight editors, in 6 weeks, but we did it. Winter in America (Again rightly takes its cue from Gil Scott-Heron and responds without vitriol (mostly) to the November 2024 U.S. Presidential election....
