Getting to the end of this series that I've been posting here 4 at a time for months. The flashbacks are intense and...
After The Japanese 91-94
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Model Session
It has been about 15 years since I last sat for painters, one of them Joan Treat, who created this painting which I...
Two Gigs This Week
I am not a fan of public readings in Seattle summer and ESPECIALLY during August, the month of POSTCARDS but here are...
G.P. Lainsbury’s Cascadia Transit
Greg (GP) Lainsbury, Professor in the English department at Northern Lights College, Fort St. John, BC is another of...
After the Japanese 87-90 (Mountains, Mingus & Madrones)
Taking the ferry in the Salish Sea, being on any kind of boat in the waters of Cascadia gives you quite a different...
5 Step Plan for Seattle Progressives
Yes the 8.8.15 interrupt Bernie stunt "Blew up the Internet." Of course that does not make it good, that means someone...
506. Curved Projections
The second poem from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest, this one is really the first, since #505 was a dry run and...
Whalen, Zen and Postcards
Thanks to Sam Hamill's suggestion, I have been reading Crowded by Beauty a biography of Beat Poet and Zen Monk Philip...
Zen, BLM Shuts Down Bernie
I was at the Bernie Sanders rally yesterday (8.8.15) in downtown Seattle's Westlake Center where he was interrupted a...
After The Japanese 83-86
"The poem beats you down the street*" when the poem is written as an act of discovery. It's part of the joy of an open...
Barry McKinnon Interview
To start a poetry culture in a town that had none before your arrival and to have that community continue while you...
Postcard Feedback
I know what you are thinking. Don't put any more energy into things like this, but my strong sense of justice is...