by Paul Nelson | Oct 19, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The latest poem from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. (See other poems here.) A Georgia O’Keeffe card and great epigraph from Joanne Kyger, the composition of which affected the content. (Wait til the ink dries!)
by Paul Nelson | Oct 12, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This poem reminds me of the on and off dialog I have been having with a Canadian poet who is down on post-modernism because much of it is: “gibberish” in his view, but whose own work is clichéd and sentimental. How would one translate whale speak into a poem. It...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 29, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest poem continues the “being as comedian” thread from the last poem, makes a reference to a direction in a prompt I saw online and alludes to some of the more out of line kvetching brought on by the implementation of a fee for the...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 16, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The largest category of (August Poetry Postcard Fest) cards I send out, in terms of the image, feature Coastal Salish art. I think this is one of the world’s most potent artistic traditions, on a par with any movement at any time in history, and in this case there is...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 3, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poem #2 in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. (Audio here.)
