by Splabman | Jul 3, 2023 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It happened! As the Poetry Postcard Fest begins, the universe has bestowed me with a gift. The winter ‘97 issue of The Kenyon Review, produced from an unlabeled cardboard box of mostly chewed up cookbooks on a walk with my partner and my dog, just for me to cut up and...
by Splabman | Apr 19, 2021 | Blog
A wonderful look at the working style of one of SPLAB’s poetry heroes, Michael McClure, as described by his last editor Garrett Caples. To hear about the project on which they collaborated, dig this: Mule Kick Blues Book Release with Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles,...
by Splabman | Dec 4, 2013 | Blog
It was December 13, 1993, when It Plays in Peoria Productions was formed in Auburn, Washington. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to, among other things: Injecting a Little Wisdom into the Information Age. We were started as an organization that existed to...
by Splabman | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog
How does one communicate the essence of three decades of conducting interviews? I have had to do that, and quick, as a grant deadline is approaching and I save the worst of the grant writing process for last. I decided on a medley of some of the moments in those last...
by Splabman | May 18, 2011 | Blog
C.A. Conrad got several poets to speak on camera about Allen Ginsberg. Your wily SPLABman was one of them. Nice work, C.A. Thank you Allen. http://jupiter88ginsberg.blogspot.com/
