Center Span: Poems and Letters

CENTER SPAN, POEMS AND LETTERS, is a wide ranging collection stretching back over forty years when in 1981 I wrote the enclosed letter to Kurt Vonnegut and became serious about writing. Many were read at open mike nights in Chicago bars, others were published in local Florida magazines. They are mostly story poems on themes of sailing, childhood memories, grief and loss, a stab or two at defining poetry, and of course exploring the age-old tension between love and death.

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Center Span: Poems and Letters

CENTER SPAN, POEMS AND LETTERS, is a wide ranging collection stretching back over forty years when in 1981 I wrote the enclosed letter to Kurt Vonnegut and became serious about writing. Many were read at open mike nights in Chicago bars, others were published in local Florida magazines. They are mostly story poems on themes of sailing, childhood memories, grief and loss, a stab or two at defining poetry, and of course exploring the age-old tension between love and death.

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Center Span: Poems and Letters

Center Span: Poems and Letters

by R J Nelson
Center Span: Poems and Letters

Center Span: Poems and Letters

by R J Nelson

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CENTER SPAN, POEMS AND LETTERS, is a wide ranging collection stretching back over forty years when in 1981 I wrote the enclosed letter to Kurt Vonnegut and became serious about writing. Many were read at open mike nights in Chicago bars, others were published in local Florida magazines. They are mostly story poems on themes of sailing, childhood memories, grief and loss, a stab or two at defining poetry, and of course exploring the age-old tension between love and death.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798892820622
Publisher: Lakestar Publishing
Publication date: 05/15/2024
Pages: 84
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

R.J Nelson retired as CEO from the Hammond, Indiana Port Authority in 2005. He is a former Superintendent of Special Services and Director of Harbors for the Chicago Park District, Vice President of the historic Grebe Shipyard on the Chicago River, a University of Chicago administrator of Court Theater, and a chaplain at Cornell University. He has sailed across the Atlantic, up the Labrador Coast to the Artic, through the Caribbean islands and all the Great Lakes. He has degrees in English and Theology. Mr. Nelson lives in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago.
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