by Splabman | May 4, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
It’s a pretty ambitious goal to write an epic poem in a day. Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, an epic about the daily routine written on Winter Solstice 1978, is like no other project that I know of, except for Canto Diurno #1. That 1986 poem by Pierre Joris is also... by Splabman | May 3, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
Give Big, the annual campaign to support cultural organizations in the state of Washington is now! The Cascadia Poetics Lab seeks your support to help us increase our visibility and revenues. Many times in the last few weeks I have heard the notion that people in the...
by Splabman | Apr 17, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
We caught up via Zoom with Hoa Nguyen on April 14, 2022 for an interview. Not everyone can say their mother was part of an all woman motorcycle troupe in Vietnam in the 1950s, but Hoa Nguyen can. If you think that it would be the kind of personal mythology out of...
by Splabman | Apr 14, 2022 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
It has the potential to be quite a place to experience Seattle at its best. Right on Lake Washington, with views of the Cascade Mountains, a modest greenbelt with indigenous plants like Indian Plum and right off the 7 bus line. Chinook Beach Park is quite a place,...
by Splabman | Feb 25, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast
What a delight to interview John Brehm in his Portland home, Thursday, February 24, 2022. There are a couple of wonderful blurbs for his new book The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You To Joy. David Hinton said: “There is a...