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PAUL E NELSON

Zen, BLM Shuts Down Bernie

I was at the Bernie Sanders rally yesterday (8.8.15) in downtown Seattle’s Westlake Center where he was interrupted a second time by protestors from #BlackLivesMatter. And I get why it is #BlackLivesMatter and not #AllLivesMatter. Unemployment, incarceration...

After The Japanese 83-86

“The poem beats you down the street*” when the poem is written as an act of discovery. It’s part of the joy of an open form. The prophecy in this batch of poems from the series I’ve been posting for a few months now portends my Father’s...

Barry McKinnon Interview

To start a poetry culture in a town that had none before your arrival and to have that community continue while you have nothing to do with it, sounds a lot like MY story. There was a short-lived writer’s open mic in downtown Auburn, WA (the former Slaughter)...