by Paul Nelson | Apr 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
3.29.15 – John Olson’s right about early lilacs – March is the new April. Facebook, being what it is, is a source of exchange that can yield moments like this. A recognition of certain facets of spring in Oregon and Washington being a good five weeks...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
I started to harvest my American Sentences after filling up my latest pocket journal and by the time I finished that harvest, I was halfway done with another pocket journal. So goes the writing time these days, but I DID finish and give you a sample of these seventeen...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
The last three of the poems in this series written in Marblemount, WA, seem so distant given the contrast between last year’s winter snow and this year’s winter-of-no-winter. Also a year ago the AWP conference was held in Seattle. The feeling there was the...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you are involved at all in the Seattle writing community, you have no doubt heard by now about the op-ed former Hugo House Writer-in-Residence and novelist Ryan Boudinot wrote for the local alt-news weekly, The Stranger. (A warning posted from one link before the...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s over now, but Winter 2014/2015 in Seattle was not much of a winter. Many people around here were planting their gardens over a month ago and I suspect that was very wise. Many plants have been quite early, including cherry blossoms and everyone’s...
