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Tuesday, October 7, I was almost set for starting the literary portion of my writing retreat. (For my first post on the rainforest writing retreat, click here.) Side trips to the Elwha Dam removal project, Chief Seattle’s grave and the Elwha Rez (to see the mouth of the river) [...]
Ever since I have essentially become a stay-at-home Dad for Ella Roque, I have been plotting opportunities to get away to write more of Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia, as well as essays in the ongoing Organic Poetry series.
So, with Mer starting a new [...]
Greg Bem not only helped organize the uber-successful Five Alarms Lit Crawl on Friday, July 13, 2012, he performed, emceed and took video. Here is video of your humble narrator reading Coyote Guts, which appears in two manuscripts in progress: Pig War & [...]
I was preparing for my reading tonight at the Five Alarms Lit Crawl in Greenwood. (Gratitud y Gracias to Aaron Kokorowski, Greg Bem, Graham Isaac, Bryan Miller & other organizers.) The Four Hoarse Men will be performing and I have a slot myself as well.
What to read? I have seven [...]
Saturday, June 23, 2012,
3:00pm
Rachel Hug’s House: 4219 Letitia Av S (Lower Unit)
Readers: Emily Kendal Frey, Paul Nelson, Kate Lebo
I am so psyched to be reading with Emily and Kate. I hope Kate brings pie. I hope Emily brings my copy of her chapbook that I left in Portland. I’ll be reading [...]
As you might have guessed by seeing the photo of my daughter Rebecca and my Mom at Doe Bay when Rebecca was about 3 (1994), I have been going to Doe Bay Resort and Retreat for many years. In fact, my first trip there was April 1991, a [...]
The opening poem from my current project: Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia. Text, with linebreaks fouled up by WordPress, is here: http://paulenelson.com/pig-war/before-pigs/
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