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David Abel Spare Room Reading Series

David Abel Spare Room Reading Series

David abel – Part 1 FORMATION OF SPARE ROOM READING SERIES by Paul E. Nelson https://media.blubrry.com/Cascadian_Prophets/p/paulenelson.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/David-Abel-4.26.13-Part-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:18 —...
Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill

Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill

by Paul E Nelson (Editor), Cate Gable (Editor), Lyn Coffin (Editor) A tribute to Sam Hamill in verse, essays and an exclusive interview, edited by Paul E Nelson, Ian Boyden and Cate Gable. Poems in English, Spanish and French. Contributors include Alexis Bernaut, Ian...
make it True meets Medusario

make it True meets Medusario

Edited by Jose Kozer, Paul E Nelson, and Thomas Walton Make It True meets Medusario, a bilingual poetry anthology, brings together poets from divergent languages, cultures, and aesthetics to create a conversation a fertile meeting place for ongoing ideas about...
56 Days of August

56 Days of August

by Ina Roy-Faderman (Author), Paul E. Nelson (Editor), J.I. Kleinberg (Editor) Postcards are electric. I get excited just turning a rack of postcards around at the drugstore. There was a time before Facebook and Twitter and Instagram when we sent postcards to people....
American Sentences

American Sentences

By Paul E Nelson This is a collection of American Sentences…A collection of 17-syllable sentences-the North American version of haiku, a form created by Allen Ginsberg-from a poet who has written one per day for 11 years. Order...
Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia

Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia

By Paul E. Nelson A collection from poets writing from the bioregion lying west of the continental divide, spanning from Cape Mendocino in the south to Mt. Logan in the north. An attempt to deepen the sense of place. A call to inhabit it as if our lives and...
Three Friends Carousel: Tiovivo Tres Amigos

Three Friends Carousel: Tiovivo Tres Amigos

An Interview and Ten Poems Jose Kozer interview by Paul Nelson Three Friends Carousel is the transcript of an interview conducted with Neruda-prize winning poet José Kozer at his Hallendale Beach home over two days, January 18 and 19, 2015, by Paul Nelson. The...
Organic in Cascadia: a Sequence of Energies

Organic in Cascadia: a Sequence of Energies

Poesia Organica Na Cascadia: uma Sequencia De Energias With the publication of Poesia Organica Na Cascadia: uma Sequencia De Energias (Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies), my work is now published in Spanish, Chinese and now Portuguese. Lumme Editions of...
Poetics as Cosmology 2021

Poetics as Cosmology 2021

Poetics as Cosmology 2021 (Intro to Spontaneous Composition) A five week Zoom workshop for people who’ve had some experience in spontaneous poetry composition and want to develop that skill. Join Poetry Postcard Fest Co-Founder Paul E Nelson in a lively course...
Nina Murray’s Postcard Sourcing Tips

Nina Murray’s Postcard Sourcing Tips

Nina Murray has a wonderful post about the fest and about where SHE gets postcards: So I thought I’d take this opportunity to list my all-time favorite sources of postcards (the listings are not sponsored in any way :). My/your local Goodwill. Never fails. There are...
2021 Poetry Postcard Fest Stats

2021 Poetry Postcard Fest Stats

The numbers are in for year 15 of the Poetry Postcard Fest, as registration has ended (FINALLY) and the poets at Casa del Colibrí can move on to their own poetry postcard production and the next heat wave or smoke infestation. But I digress. Here are the numbers:...