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PAUL E NELSON

Bradner Gardens Reading, Margin Shift

Bradner Gardens Reading, Margin Shift

It might be the 56 Days of August, but I’ll take a break from writing postcards for a moment to read at two local cultural events that I’ve been part of before. Margin Shift: Friends in Poetry has been a “movable feast” for the better part of a...
John Olson on The Day Song of Casa del Colibrí

John Olson on The Day Song of Casa del Colibrí

It was wonderful seeing John and Roberta Olson, Willie Smith, Denis Mair, Phoebe Bosche, Trudy Mercer, Bart Baxter, Elliott Bronstein and other writers from the Red Sky Poetry Theater days at events featuring Stephen Thomas this past weekend. (An interview with...
The Tunnel: A Literary and Arts Crawl

The Tunnel: A Literary and Arts Crawl

I’m delighted to be part of a literary arts event Sunday, July 9 from 5-8pm. The Tunnel: A Literary and Arts Crawl is the mastermind of Greg Bem, who will be moving from Seattle to Spokane for a job this summer. We will miss his invention, his innovation...
Brenda-ized City Sonnet

Brenda-ized City Sonnet

For three full seasons (October-June, 2020-2023) I have conducted online workshops designed to allow poets who have participated in the Poetry Postcard Fest to go a little deeper into the process of learning how to revise less. The last workshop ended a deep dive into...
Postcard Poem as Ofrenda

Postcard Poem as Ofrenda

After I suggested this title as the June 15, 2023, talk to be given at the Altar/Alter project, I realized that what I meant was more like milagro or folk charm, though one could make the case that poetry postcards are like little sacred planes on which we place our...