by Splabman | Feb 9, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab
CPL Board Member Jason Wirth has arranged for Dr. E. Richard Atleo to speak at Seattle U. This is a remarkable opportunity to hear about Nuu-Chal-Nuth cosmology. Details below. I had the good fortune to interview Dr. Atleo in 2005 and included the transcript in my...
by Splabman | Feb 1, 2023 | Blog, blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
What a blessing it was December 28, 2022, to interview Shuri Kido, the accomplished Japanese poet and Zen practitioner. As I told he and his translators (Tomoyuki Endo, Forrest Gander) on that occasion, I don’t know of a higher calling at this time than building...
by Splabman | Jan 1, 2023 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
I had the honor of conducting another interview with Brenda Hillman on December 12, 2022. The subject was her new book In A Few Minutes Before Later. It is wonderful to see a poet evolving in such a beautiful way as Brenda is, following her own “permission to be...
by Splabman | Dec 16, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
Our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast guest is Wendy Call. She is translator of Isthmus Zapotec poet Irma Pineda. The new book is In the Belly of Night and Other Poems and Wendy talks about how she learned Spanish, how she came to know this woman whom she calls an...
by Splabman | Dec 13, 2022 | blog cascadia poetics lab, podcast, podcastb
When I visited Mary Norbert Körte in October of 2019, we recorded interviews on consecutive days. On the second day we talked, among other things, about the chapbook put together by the City University of New York’s Lost & Found program featuring her...
