OK, I’m back. It was 4,167 miles in Que (my Honda) to Portland, Boise (via John Day River watershed in Oregon), to Moab, Grand Junction, CO, Denver, Taos, Quemado, NM, Phelan, CA, Lancaster, CA, Danville, CA, Bolinas, Portland and back to the Emerald City yesterday. Yes, I like driving. Yes, my cellphone takes barely adequate photos. Yes, interviews with Amalio Madueño and a very short one with Joanne Kyger were worth the drive. Audio from both interviews coming soon, but first, photos. All photos are on Facebook, sorry, but the link is here.
I stand accused of calling Chief Twisted Hair by the wrong name. ARGH!
Wish I’d photographed every post office I passed
Eastern Oregon
Chief Twisted Hair
mm mm, beets and tequila in Boise. What could go wrong?
At Sam Hamill’s suggestion, Dead Horse Point State Park
Dead Horse Point State Park
Dead Horse Point State Park
Lunch in Denver
Breakfast of Champions
Your Humble Narrator at the Clyfford Still Museum
Painting by Clyfford Still
PP-241 (Willie Andrews) 1936, pastel on paper by Clyfford Still
Outside the Denver Art Museum
Clyfford Still Museum
Clyfford Still Museum
PH-1939, 1977, Clyfford Still Museum
Your Humble Narrator in front of Clyfford Still Self-Portrait, Clyfford Still Museum
Paul Nelson is founder of SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) in Seattle, the Cascadia Poetry Festival and the August POetry POstcard Fest (PoPo). www.POPO.cards. He has published a collection of essays, Organic Poetry & a serial poem re-enacting the history of Auburn, WA, A Time Before Slaughter (shortlisted for a 2010 Genius Award by The Stranger) and American Sentences, a book of 17 syllable poems drawn from the first fourteen of his 20 years of daily practice. The tenth anniversary edition of that book includes Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia. He’s interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Wanda Coleman, Anne Waldman, Sam Hamill, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey, Eileen Myles, George Bowering, Diane di Prima, Brenda Hillman, George Stanley, Joanne Kyger & many Cascadia poets (see: https://paulenelson.com/americanprophets/) has presented his poetry and poetics in London, Brussels, Bothell, Cumberland, BC, Qinghai and Beijing, China, Lake Forest, Illinois, Ukiah, CA, and other places & writes an American Sentence every day. www.PaulENelson.com
I know most of these places. Thank you.