by Paul Nelson | Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Two months of the last year of the Mayan Calendar are toast like some human sacrifice down into a volcano and all I have to show for it is a few more measly 17 syllable poems. Here are some recent ones: 2.19.12 – Keeps dropping her she keeps popping into his...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Writing Haibun I first became aware of the haibun literary form through Anne Waldman’s Marriage: A Sentence and through Sam Hamill’s translation of Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior,perhaps the quintessential translation. Now I am in the middle of...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 21, 2012 | POPO
Poetry Postcard Exercise Ted Berrigan, Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer are among the more notable poets to engage in such a project. Berrigan’s book of them (A Certain Slant on Sunlight) was completed six months before his death in 1983. Alice Notley wrote: the cards as...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
So, I found my pocket journal that went from October 13, 2011 to January 17, 2012. It was a scary moment when I couldn’t find it for various reasons. I do not want to think about how a lost journal would have imperiled the early harvest of American Sentences....
by Paul Nelson | Feb 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ships sail so far away, even farther, that their smoke is no more than the distant signal of a marine volcano. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna & further still the cosmos. & in the cosmos the soul that would be Ella. (Stellar). She. Her. No podemos hacerlo sin Ella....
