by Splabman | Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
In years past I have taken time on the 1st of September to write my POPO afterword. If felt like a ritual to end each extended August with a meditation on what I had done, followed by a photo or video of the cards I received. That it is part of my own personal...
by Splabman | Dec 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
34. Eighty-Seven Remarkable (or Fun) Things about Paul E Nelson Sr. &/Or Charles Olson on What Would’ve Been their 87th &/or 105th Birthdays, Dec 27, 2015. A remarkable thing is that Pop paid union dues to what was BRAC but became TCU The Transportation...
by Splabman | Sep 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
I had no idea when I started this series that it would end with me writing poems about my Father’s death on Mother’s Day 2014. And so it goes. I am grateful to have a process that allows me to, yes, process events like this one. I am grateful for the...
by Splabman | Sep 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Near the very end of this series of 100 poems my Father died. (May 11, 2014) I’d not experienced much death in my life to that point and Dad died in his bed and not in some hospital, which made me appreciate death as a creative act. How one does it, that is. I...
by Splabman | Dec 26, 2014 | POPO
I did this last year, a post of the top ten posts/pages of the year. I excluded American Sentences and all individual pages associated with that daily practice and also Organic Poetry and individual essays under that rubric. I’ve also included only two of the...