by Splabman | Nov 30, 2011 | Blog
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. —Marvin Bell What is erasure poetry and why does Ron Silliman compare it to the play of burlesque or striptease? Come to Living Room to consider the possibilities. After...
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 | Oct 27, 2011 | Blog
The Uncanny It’s alive! Or is it? Genre writers know how to make your skin crawl. A favorite item in their toolkit: The uncanny. I don’t just mean something spooky. I mean something that seems familiar but also strange. Think of the pod people from Invasion of the...
by Splabman | Oct 21, 2011 | Blog
Have you had an absurd or incomprehensible dream lately? Rich subconscious secrets and great poems cleverly hide behind and between dream images. Often the more absurd the inviting dream and its connections are, the more rich meaning resides. It is our linear mind...
by Splabman | Oct 2, 2011 | Blog
“To be frank, the inevitable panel discussion on the ‘poetry of place’ bores me: it takes place too literally. The place of poetry is nothing less than the place of love, for language; the place of shifting ground, for human song; the place of the made,...
