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PAUL E NELSON

The Great Columbia City Dog Shit Debate

It’s fascinating to see what hits a nerve with people in our internet age. Seems like days have passed, but it was only yesterday that a neighbor posted to the Columbia City neighborhood Facebook page a post about his neighbor. Apparently this person was upset...

A Time Before Slaughter

Some Slaughter news. You may be aware that my publisher, Apprentice House, is the only student-run college press in the U.S. There are now four different classes students at Loyola of Maryland can take to learn about the rapidly-changing publishing world. Today they...

494. Momentarily Non-Local

494. Momentarily Non-Local is a sort of Levertov meets Whitman meets the notion of multiple selves. Sam Hamill says I am a “man of a thousand faces” and at least that many selves. Again Cholula memories but this time palpably from Cascadia. Were I to edit this, I’d...

493. Rose Petals & Chicharrónes

The latest postcard poem from the 2014 August Poetry Postcard Fest. August 19, 2014, Seattle, WA “Holiness does not dissolve, it is a presence / of bronze.” – Denise Levertov The Cholula sacramental marching band scatters rose petals in a trail...