It is one of the worst feelings I ever get and most poets have experienced it at one time or another. The lost poem. I...
The Last of the 2012 American Sentences
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Help Julian Priester
Julian and his wife Nashira Priester need your help. This world class Jazz musician and his poet wife have been it...
PageBoy Magazine Interview
We'd planned to interview Thomas Walton about the publication he edits and publishes, Pageboy Magazine, as well as...
Five Alarms Saturday, Jan 26, Greenwood
The 3rd Five Alarms Lit Crawl happens Saturday, January 26, 2013, in Greenwood, featuring: Aaron Kokorowski, Amy...
Anne Waldman – Vow to Poetry (2002 Interview)
Anne Waldman took time to chat in April 2002, about her book Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews and Manifestos. In the...
American Sentences Handout
This site has been getting a lot of hits from people who heard about American Sentences via Kim Addonizio and her book...
78. Wren and Whale Surrender
78 in a series of 99 neo-barroco haibun written after Ramón Gomez de la Serna. This one inspired by E. Richard Atleo's...
77. Clean Shirt (It Never Entered My Mind)
Mississippi – Yangtze Sister Rivers (Wang Ping, Kinship of Rivers)
Kinship of Rivers is an international project engaging art, poetry, stories, music, dance and food to connect people...
Happy 84th Pop
My Dad, Paul Everett Nelson Senior, is 84 today, December 27, 2012. A few years ago I wrote a haibun that started as...
Voluntary Simplicity – Cecile Andrews
Cecile Andrews, former columnist for the Seattle Times and expert on Voluntary Simplicity is author of: The Circle of...
USAmerica’s Overworking Epidemic (Take Back Your Time)
John de Graaf is a documentary filmmaker for PBS. He discussed what he calls the epidemic of overworking in America,...