by Splabman | Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
This post has been updated to include video from the January 22, 2021 talk: I met Ian Boyden about ten or so years ago through our mutual friend Sam Hamill and we’ll always be marked by that experience. (Sure, we have some less than flattering Sam stories, but...
by Splabman | Oct 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
They are 108 poems that “illuminate a hidden landscape in the names of children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.” Many of their deaths could have been prevented if not for the shoddy construction of the school buildings in which they attended. The poems are...
by Splabman | Aug 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
My good friend Ian Boyden is a brilliant artist who has a new book of poems to be released next month by Wesleyan University Press. FYI: A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations by Ian Boyden Wesleyan University Press (buy now) 136 pp. 2 b&w photos. 5.5...
by Splabman | Feb 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
What a great thing to do on a Sunday – day trip to San Juan Island to see an exhibit of the work of legendary conceptual artist and Chinese political dissident Ai WeiWei. His story is legendary (and includes an eighty-one day detention during which he was...