by Paul Nelson | Jun 7, 2022 | POPO
It has been eleven years since I was a presenter at Haiku North America, on the campus of Fort Worden in 2011. I spoke on the subject of American Sentences, those 17 syllable poems that I have been writing once a day since January 1, 2001. (I remember reading one...
by Paul Nelson | May 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
I can’t begin to tell you how thrilled I am with Pablo Baler’s review of my latest book Haibun de la Serna in the new edition of Exacting Clam. He was the person who introduced me to the work of Ramón Gómez de la Serna, saying my American Sentences...
by Paul Nelson | May 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
We caught up on May 16, 2022, with longtime Poetry Postcard Fest participant Judy J.I. Kleinberg about her exhibit at the Peter Miller Books in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. J.I. Kleinberg is a longtime Poetry Postcard participant who grew up in Los...
by Paul Nelson | May 12, 2022 | POPO
Get your five page handout loaded with links, prompts and inspirations if you register for this one day workshop before June 10. Take a look inside the course materials from our current workshop group that started after the 2020 Poetry Postcard Fest. We’ve been...
by Paul Nelson | May 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s a pretty ambitious goal to write an epic poem in a day. Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, an epic about the daily routine written on Winter Solstice 1978, is like no other project that I know of, except for Canto Diurno #1. That 1986 poem by Pierre Joris is also...
