Your Wily Splabman has been getting his grubby hands, voice and ears back into radio again thanks to KBCS.FM, 91.3. Host of the Friday edition of the music/public affairs hybrid The Morning Blend, he’s also been producing SPLAB Presents which has featured, in the last few weeks:
C.A. Conrad, wildlife biologist Dominick DellaSala, Nate Mackey, Allen Ginsberg from the SPLAB archive and Frances McCue. Her new book is The Bled a remarkable response to her husband’s sudden and accidental death in Morocco. All of the above linked HERE and much of it chopped into 5 minute soundbites for ease of digestion. SPLAB Presents airs Thursday afternoons around 4:30P on KBCS.Bon appetit!
About Splabman
Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
