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2024 Pangaea Prize Runner-up

25 Wednesday Feb 2026

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From Watching

The lack I am.  I talk and talk yet accomplish little. 
The pigeons purr from the palapa rafters as a bedlam
of adoring fans.  God bless them for not judging me…

Read more by Nicholas Skaldetvind

Nicholas Skaldetvind was born in New York.

April Poetry Workshop

25 Monday Mar 2024

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Come write with us! Journey with us as we celebrate April #poetrymonth.

This is a 4-week workshop. There are two options for what day of the week you would like to meet: Thursday or Saturday.

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Nils Nelson — Pangaea Prize Finalist, 2022

05 Saturday Aug 2023

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The sun dried your hardwood tendons,
your head came loose.

Pick-axe, one swing and this caliche will break us.

Time to shim you up, tell the wheel
grind off your burrs.

From Arizona Garden by Nils Nelson
Read 3 of Nils’ Poems

After Nils Nelson left the University of Arizona with a Janitorial Certificate (and a B.A. in English), he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at Cal State Fresno, ’74.  His poems have appeared in Seneca Review, Ironwood, Crazyhorse, Partisan Review and other suspects, with a new poem due in the Irish magazine, Channel. An avid golfer and award-winning golf writer and editor, his articles have been in numerous national golf magazines. Nils Lives in Tucson, where he’s polishing a full-length manuscript.

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