Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson grew up on a small farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California and has worked as a farmer, teacher and contract writer/editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart nominations in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. His poems received a 2014 Pushcart nomination, Sharkpack Review’s 2014 Prospero Prize, and 2015 and 2016 Best of the Net nominations.

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018

Poetry

Prophesies & Fire and Rain

Prophesies The white blossoms fallen to the furrow rise again and swirl on March breeze past branches bearing the green buds of

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June 22, 2018September 11, 2018

View & Spring – Poems

View A white petal falls as the bee drinks the Mandarin bloom then moves on. Purple and red tin pots with orange flowers hang from the top rail of the neighbor’s balcony. Across the unpainted fence a black and

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Poetry

Prophesies & Fire and Rain

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018

Prophesies The white blossoms fallen to the furrow rise again and swirl on March breeze past branches bearing the green buds of plums. The high egret circling beats an angel’s ivory wings.

Poetry

View & Spring – Poems

June 22, 2018September 11, 2018

View A white petal falls as the bee drinks the Mandarin bloom then moves on. Purple and red tin pots with orange flowers hang from the top rail of the neighbor’s