by Splabman | Apr 17, 2012 | Blog
Text Corpse Exquisite Corpse- a French Surrealist game in which a poem is passed around and participants add the lines with limited knowledge of what was previously written. Text message- brief communication between two mobile devices. We will be combining these two...
by Splabman | Jan 10, 2012 | Blog
For Walt Whitman, body-consciousness seemed to propel the poet beyond anything as simple as “interest” in the physiological processes of the body in health. The 1855 versions of “Song of Myself,” “The Sleepers,” and “I Sing...
by Splabman | Nov 4, 2011 | Blog
Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula Tilla loola luula loola Tilla luula loola luula —from “Ursonate” by Kurt Schwitters One thing that seems to distinguish poems from prose is sound. I hope for us to consider the relationship of primal sound to the...
by Splabman | Sep 26, 2011 | Events
The mind writes what is. —Gertrude Stein Zuihitisu is a classical Japanese form that looks like prose but sounds like poetry. Zuihitsu has been translated as “following the brush” or “random jottings.” The poet accumulates anecdotes, impressions, overheard...
by Splabman | Sep 10, 2011 | Blog
In the 1880’s Nietzsche declared, God is Dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Atheists would argue God was never alive to begin with. Religious fundamentalists disagree. But for the large majority of us – Agnostics, freethinkers, lapsed…whatevers –...
