by Paul Nelson | Jul 14, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
by Paul Nelson | Jul 7, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Being a William Carlos Williams fan, this story was a natural for me. A scholar by the name of William Logan, a professor at the University of Florida, (with help from a local historian) did the research to find the identity of the man who owned the red wheelbarrow in...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 7, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I’m back in that mode again, a time of year when poetry gets right to the front of my daily consciousness. Some who know me would argue that it is that way anyway, but during the annual August Poetry Postcard Fest this becomes more pronounced. Walks, news...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 5, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
First an update on the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. We have 70 signups in the first 44 hours and the first two groups are complete. Lists have been sent out to groups 1 & 2. Participants in the first two groups represent: Mobile AL, Tuscaloosa AL, Castlegar...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 4, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2015 marks year nine and this is your official call. Directions to participate in the fest are linked here. This year poets will be organized in groups of 32 and the list will...
by Paul Nelson | May 14, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I love this notion of pre-bedtime suggestions. I have been doing that the last few months, or more based on the latest poems to be posted here from the ongoing series After The Japanese. I have been posting the poems in hunks of four the last few months and it...
by Paul Nelson | May 13, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am starting to get emails about the August Poetry Postcard Fest. Questions like: 1) Is the fest on this year? (Yes). 2) Can you sign me up now? (No). 3) What are the main changes this year? (This year we’re charging for the first time. It’s a $10 dollar...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 1, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am so envious of these four chapbooks and delighted they were gifts recently given to me. All from Cascadians and all quite worth while. Wikipedia (by way of the O.E.D.) says: “Chapbook is first attested in English in 1824, and seems to derive from the word...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 26, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I did this last year, a post of the top ten posts/pages of the year. I excluded American Sentences and all individual pages associated with that daily practice and also Organic Poetry and individual essays under that rubric. I’ve also included only two of the...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 24, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
WooHoo! The last 2014 August Poetry Postcard! (See all here.) And with only 221 days until the next call goes out. Hawthorn Presence uses an image I took on my cellphone of the house Denise Levertov lived in, images of my visit with Charles Potts in Walla Walla and...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 22, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Passing Lane is another 2014 August Postcard Poem, but this one reflects a life firmly back home after my visit to Mexico, firmly into the routine of taking walks in my Hillman City/Seward Park neighborhood, learning the names of local plants (which may not be local)...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 18, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Driving the Redwood Highway is one of the most wonderful road trips I could ever imagine. Starting from Grants Pass, Oregon, stopping at Dutch Bros coffee to get an Irish Creme latté, you soon head southwest and go through stands of old growth Redwoods and along...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 17, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
by Paul Nelson | Nov 11, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Not too many postcard poems from 2014 left. (Whew!) This one features another Germán Montalvo image and is an homage to Denise Levertov. Long live the organic! (Well, until it decomposes.) A link to all 2014 August Postcard poems here.
by Paul Nelson | Nov 11, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
496. The Occasional Chicharrón has more Congress and Puebla reflections, another reference to Vargas Lugo’s butterfly nation flags and the impending USAmerican football season, the advent of which signals the end of summer in many different ways. The intense violence...
