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PAUL E NELSON

Angeline Roof Summer Solstice

Greg Bem organized one of his very lively events this past Monday night, June 20, 2016, as an open reading and Summer Solstice celebration. That the occasion also featured a Full Moon, the Strawberry Moon, and the first full moon on the Summer Solstice since 1967....

Sarah de Leeuw Skeena (Interview)

On May 30, 2016, I had a chance to chat with Sarah de Leeuw, a poet with work published in Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia. Her new book is Skeena, a book-length poem about one of the largest rivers in Northern BC. My intro: Rivers have been a source for poetry...

Hugo House Out, Whole Foods In

Seattle had the second or third highest rent increase of cities in the U.S. in 2015 depending on how you figure it. Regardless, the housing market here is insane. Is anything sacred? No. Across the street from Seattle First Baptist Church was a perfectly suitable...

56 Days of August (The August Postcard Fest Anthology)

From Ina Roy: The yearly August Postcard Poetry Festival has become an international event. To celebrate the 10th year of the Fest and the community that has developed around it, we will be creating an anthology of poems written as part of the 2016 August Postcard...

Are You Stockpiling Postcards?

The 10th August Poetry Postcard Fest begins on July 4. Registration begins that day here: Buy tickets for August POetry POstcard Fest And poems from this year’s fest can be submitted for the 1st Poetry Postcard Fest Anthology, a project led by three volunteers....