by Splabman | Jul 18, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetics as Cosmology (Intro to Spontaneous Composition) A six week online (Zoom) workshop for people who have had a little experience in spontaneous poetry composition and want more. Join SPLAB and Poetry Postcard Fest Co-Founder Paul E Nelson in a lively course...
by Splabman | Jul 4, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It is almost August once again and this means POSTCARDS! The August Poetry Postcard Project is an exercise in responding to other poets. You write a poem a day for the month of August, write it directly onto a postcard and send it to the next name on your list. When...
by Splabman | Oct 30, 2011 | Blog
I am grateful to Philip Brautigam for his amazing and generous work on my website redesign. See it here: www.PaulENelson.com. He has become a WordPress expert and I love the user friendly nature of the design. I’ll be migrating American Sentences and Organic...
by Splabman | Mar 27, 2011 | Blog
A shakeup is essential for the purposes of transformation (Vladimir Mayakovsky). The process of training your ear to capture the chaotic energy of the moment in a poem is sometimes called organic poetry, where composition is an occasion of experience or experiment in...
by Splabman | Sep 27, 2010 | Sponsors
On Thursday, October 21, Northwind Reading Series features Gary Lemons and Paul Nelson. The readings start at 7 p.m. in the Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson St. Gary Lemons worked most of his life with his hands. Along the way he discovered the act of writing...
