by Splabman | Jun 25, 2012 | Blog
As I prepare to make one last presentation at one last Living Room in Columbia City, I am taking a moment to look back and consider all the great things that happened in our three year run here. My wife Meredith and I planned to relocate to Seattle as soon as my...
by Splabman | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog
Ted Berrigan (Nov. 15, 1934-July 4, 1983) was a master practitioner of a multiplicity of strategies for making poems, among them appropriation, collage, collaboration, misreadings and mistranslations, found poetry, and list poems. In his mix of voices and sources he...
by Splabman | Apr 19, 2011 | Events
Apocalypticism Now? In a recent Chicago Review essay, Peter O’Leary attempts to trace a “way forward” between traditional workshop poetry and Language poetry, both of which have become academically institutionalized. He draws the right lineage, but...
