by Splabman | Sep 2, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I did not get a chance to write about my experience with the 12th Poetry Postcard Fest yesterday as I was leaving Ian, Jennifer and Gavia Boyden and their home on San Juan Island with my daughter Ella. We had been there to help Ian celebrate his NEA award to translate...
by Splabman | Jul 12, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Reading Mark Gonnerman’s book A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End I came to Tim Dean’s essay on The Other Voice. In the essay he states that in his 40 year epic poem, since Snyder: …harmonizes a vast...
by Splabman | Jul 3, 2018 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I have been getting caught up on some of Sam Hamill’s work since his death back in April. Last night reading from his 1981 book of “casual essays” or “over-the-shoulder” glances he titled At Home in the World, I came across an essay...
by Splabman | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
Daphne Marlatt was kind enough to allow us to publisher her Levertov Panel notes: Denise Levertov: Poet of Inter-Relations (by Daphne Marlatt) A few weeks after I’d turned 21 I had the opportunity to ask Denise Levertov a question vital to me as a young writer. This...
by Splabman | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
The 4th Cascadia Poetry Festival will happen Nov 3-6, 2016 in Seattle at the Spring Street Center. This year’s festival is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Denise Levertov who lived in Seattle for the last 8 years of her life and is buried here. A...
