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 3, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poem #2 in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. (Audio here.)
by Paul Nelson | Aug 27, 2015 | Poetry Postcard Fest
This is the first “official” poetry postcard of mine for 2015, year 9. I sent out one “practice card” to someone from last year’s list, but THIS year I decided to use Joanne Kyger’s new book On Time as a source of epigraphs. I am...