by Paul Nelson | Jul 16, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
OK poets! At this point we are one over the record 302 poets we set last year, but I am sure we’ll get much past that. I have sent a list via email and am posting the instructions here as well for easy reference. North American states and provinces included in...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 10, 2013 | Poetry Postcard Fest
“There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.” – M. Scott Peck (pdf) It was the summer...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 24, 2013 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The absolute tranquility is the present moment. Though it is at this moment, there is no limit to this moment, and herein is eternal delight. – Hui-neng In 2000 I was invited to participate in the 3:15 Experiment, which involved writing every day in August at...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 1, 2012 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am writing this post on July 27, 2012, after composing and documenting the first three poems I am sending in the 2012 August Poetry Postcard Fest. This was a project I conceived of and co-created with Lana Ayers. This year Brendan McBreen took on the heavy-lifting...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 21, 2012 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Exercise Ted Berrigan, Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer are among the more notable poets to engage in such a project. Berrigan’s book of them (A Certain Slant on Sunlight) was completed six months before his death in 1983. Alice Notley wrote: the cards as...
