by Paul Nelson | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
It is a testament to the good of social media that an event like Seattle/St. Paul, which happened last night in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a poet I’d never met before, Mark Fleury, could happen. My policy on Facebook is to agree to a friend request if the person...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve just finished the new book on the Essential Writings of Peter Berg. The Biosphere and the Bioregion is the title and it is so prophetic and visionary, I am compelled to cull through all my marginalia to have a record of what’s going through my mind at...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Was inspired by seeing Jarret Middleton’s thoughts about the lack of charges brought against Darren Wilson, the officer in Ferguson, Missouri, who fatally shot Michael Brown, a young black man whose crime was shoplifting. His thoughts came out to nearly 1,400...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 24, 2014 | POPO
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 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Often times I’ll see a poem, or in the case below, one is sent to me, and feel that it needs updating, or could stand to be altered to fit the conditions of my particular place and time while yet still addressing the original core intent (or not). It’s like...
