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PAUL E NELSON

Divorce and Yoga Windows

After 1,909 days of marriage to Meredith A. (Sedlachek) Nelson, our union ended with a whimper in the King County Courthouse on Thursday (Oct 15, 2015) followed by a Cajun Meal at Marcela’s Creole Cookery in Pioneer Square with Gumbo, Muffaletta and coffee with...

American Sentences Press Release

      For Immediate Release October 10, 2015 For more information, contact: Kevin Atticks, director 410-617-5529 apprenticehouse@loyola.edu Paul Nelson, author (206) 422.5002 splabman (at) gmail (dot) com American Sentences: Compendium of American Haiku...

512. Whale Poker

This poem reminds me of the on and off dialog I have been having with a Canadian poet who is down on post-modernism because much of it is: “gibberish” in his view, but whose own work is clichéd and sentimental. How would one translate whale speak into a poem. It...

American Sentences is Published!

On the 60th anniversary of the Beat Generation coming out party, the Six Gallery reading, my 14+ year project American Sentences made it into the world as a published book. That copies were shipped by the publisher to the wrong address is telling, but that they ended...

Eileen Myles in Seattle

She’s apparently in the literary “mainstream” now, according to The Guardian in a typo-laden, but important piece dated Oct 1, 2015, but Eileen Myles has been a real writer, with tremendous depth and perception for decades how and great to see her...