It is almost August once again and this means POSTCARDS! The August Poetry Postcard Project is an exercise in...
August Poetry Postcard Project, Year 8!
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Community Acupuncture and the Collaborative Commons
I have been pretty inspired by a talk Jeremy Rifkin gave at Town Hall on April 7th, as it gives me hope that there is...
Peter Culley’s Hammertown
The first moment I heard about Peter Culley's serial poem Hammertown, immediately I intuited that it was similar to...
American Sentences May & June 2014
OK OK, here is my latest harvest of American Sentences. They are taken from the middle of March to today and though...
Red Sky Poetry Theater
It's odd how death makes us pause and reconsider our own lives. When my Father died, I got the hunch within a week or...
Father’s Day/My Model of Illness (Consciousness)
Since my Dad died on May 11, there have been a lot of thoughts of him that have gone through my head, as you can...
Hailey, ID, Pound House, Bowe Bergdahl
Mer and I recently returned from a mammoth road trip from Seattle to Minneapolis, Chicago, DC, Pittsburgh, Decatur,...
Clyfford Still Museum
As part of our marathon road trip, Mer, Ella and I stopped in Denver specifically for the purpose of visiting the...
Loose in Cascadia
I have left a couple of browser tabs open on my mac for a couple of weeks now because of their relevance to my ongoing...
American Sentences for Pop
I read Nine Sonnets for Pop and a few of these 17 syllable poems at my Dad's grave today as his remains were interred...
Pop at Aunt Barbara’s Coffin
My Aunt Barbara Rose O'Connell died on Super Bowl Sunday, 2007, and there were ceremonies in Glendora, California,...
George Stanley on Innovation
One of the most powerful events of the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival (Cascadia II) was the panel: Cascadian Poetics:...