by Paul Nelson | Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Two months of the last year of the Mayan Calendar are toast like some human sacrifice down into a volcano and all I have to show for it is a few more measly 17 syllable poems. Here are some recent ones: 2.19.12 – Keeps dropping her she keeps popping into his...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Paul Nelson | Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Forwarding this from Peter Anastas, author of the Olson memoir, From Gloucester Out. He’s asking us to: “Sign this petition and forward it to friends, poets, Olson and Gloucester lovers, who live outside of the city. We are fighting hard to save...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Writing Haibun I first became aware of the haibun literary form through Anne Waldman’s Marriage: A Sentence and through Sam Hamill’s translation of Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior,perhaps the quintessential translation. Now I am in the middle of...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 21, 2012 | POPO
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...
