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...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am grateful to Connie Walle for inviting me to be a featured reader at the Distinguished Writer’s Series in Tacoma. I did it last Friday, March 13, 2015 and was delighted to see many long-time friends in the house. I had been scheduled for February 2007, but...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
The latest in this series of poems written in 2014 and archived here cover ground from Lorine Niedecker, to Michael McClure, to Amalio Madueño (Garcia), to Vincent Van Gogh and were also written in Marblemount, WA, near the entrance to North Cascades National Park....
by Paul Nelson | Mar 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
It has been described by one Seattle writer as a reading series that leans toward: “the academic, conceptual and slightly Canadian.” It is Margin Shift, a new poetry reading series run by a collective that seems to take the place where the legendary...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
It was probably in 1995 or ’96 that Danika Dinsmore made me aware of a form of poetry called Present Beau, a kind of poem that employs the restraint of using only the letters in someone’s name in the poem itself. Thomas Walton of Pageboy Magazine has been...
