by Paul Nelson | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
A second and, hopefully, shorter post about my walk with Jim Demetre at Washington Park Arboretum. What a place this is and late winter is one of the most inspiring times to go, giving those who have survived a long winter the hope that the groundhog is wrong and...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Each morning I look over last year’s journal entry for the same day and it had been a year since I walked through Washington Park Arboretum with Jim Demetre. Jim’s an amateur botanist whom I met during The Long Walk in 2011, and we’ve kept in touch...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
So I have to tell the story of finding out about my surgery date for the two, count ‘em, TWO hernias I have being diagnosed with. (A bilateral inguinal hernia and an abdominal hernia.) I got a call from the nurse yesterday. Let’s call her Joanie. She told me I should...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Peter Munro has been kind enough to invite me to be the featured poet at his fine open mic in Wedgwood on Monday, February 11, 2013. I will be reading some classics, some American Sentences, some haibun and poems from Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia. If my book...
by Paul Nelson | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
It was the most intensive residency application I have ever seen. Two letters of reference to be sent directly to the foundation. An essay outlining my thoughts on the significance of at least two different pieces by the artist whose last home is where the residency...
