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PAUL E NELSON

Videopoem Version of Dispatch

A re-post here of a recent postcard poem. I met Kyle McCormick playing basketball in Columbia City. yes, I’ve been dragging my 53 year old ass onto the court again and have had some very good games and some very shitty ones, but always getting a sweat. After...

Airbnb, Microhousing & Seattle Nice

As I continue with a long-term cultural investigation of the bioregion in which I live, Cascadia, an investigation that includes a (hopefully) annual poetry festival, a Massive Open Online Course on the bioregion’s innovative poetry and an anthology, I begin to...

American Sentences June-Oct

The latest harvest of 17 syllable poems from my daily discipline. See more about the form at www.AmericanSentences.com and thanks for reading. Comments welcome. 6.26.14 – Driving 34 a cherry pit’s distributed every two blocks. 6.29.14 – She talks about her...

491. Uncommon Speech

This 2014 August Poetry postcard was written in Puebla, Mexico, while I was there to attend the 14th Subud World Congress. 491. Uncommon Speech is one of my favorite postcard poems from 2014. It combines an image from German Montalvo, another Mexican artist whom I met...