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PAUL E NELSON

Some 2015 Postcard Highlights

Autumn came in with a bang yesterday, three weeks early. (Damage is said to be in the tens of millions of dollars.) It’s odd, but early Spring and early Summer this year were greeted with great joy. Early Fall? Ugh. Truth is many around here loved the early rain...

506. Curved Projections

This is the first “official” poetry postcard of mine for 2015, year 9. I sent out one “practice card” to someone from last year’s list, but THIS year I decided to use Joanne Kyger’s new book On Time as a source of epigraphs. I am...

Model Session

It has been about 15 years since I last sat for painters, one of them Joan Treat, who created this painting which I bought immediately: But the session last week at the studio of Amanda Teicher was an incredible experience. To see artists from other disciplines...

Two Gigs This Week

I am not a fan of public readings in Seattle summer and ESPECIALLY during August, the month of POSTCARDS but here are two, one Friday night (Aug 28) and one Saturday night (Aug 29) in Seattle: An evening of spoken word and jazz, San Francisco Style. Musicians Kenny...