by Paul Nelson | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Bill O’Daly: Dear Friends and Family, A reading based on Winter in America (Again, an anthology developed in response to the 2024 election by poets Katie Sarah Zale, president of the Arizona State Poetry Society, and Paul E. Nelson, founding director of the...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
How can one write poetry about current political events without resorting to invective or rhetoric? Why is this important? Poetry is a use of language that is capable of a kind of depth of being that rhetoric is not. Rhetoric is opinion, which is centered in the human...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Faithful Blog Reader! The Winter in America (Again reading scheduled for tonight, Friday, July 11, 2025, has been canceled. The tour’s last stop is tomorrow, Saturday, July 12, at 2pm at the Columbia City Gallery, Among the featured poets are three from out...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
An amazing testimonial for the Poetry Postcard Fest though it was not intended to serve that purpose. It is from Kosho Itagaki of Temple Eishoji (where I sit three days a week.) He writes: 🚤 Standing at the Brink Choosing Not Productivity, but Prayer We live...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Matt Trease moved to Seattle, became a postcard poet, has long helped run the Margin Shift reading in Seattle, has been a board member of the Cascadia Poetics Lab for 8 years and is my good friend. All these reasons would be sufficient to interview him about The...
