by Paul Nelson | Mar 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
This series of poems, posted four at a time and archived here, continues with some written on a short retreat in Marblemount, WA, near North Cascades National Park. They are all written in response to the classic Japanese poetry anthology, and taking a page out of...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I was searching for my interview with Robin Blaser online and it appears the link that was the best, from Lou Rowan’s Golden Handcuffs Review, is down and I’m going to rectify that here. Actually two interviews I did, the second at the suggestion of Lou,...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Gigs Ahoy! I’ll be participating in several readings over the next few weeks. I’ll have manuscript versions of Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia and other merch. Saturday, March 7th, 2-6P at the Cornish Blackbox Theater, 201 W. Mercer at Seattle...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
The photo did not crash the internet, but got my friends talking, or expressing concern from Seattle to Cuba to Moscow to Morocco and beyond I am sure. As reported in an earlier haibun, I am undergoing tests to see if I have Sleep Apnea. Responses to my posting of...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 1, 2015 | POPO
I am so envious of these four chapbooks and delighted they were gifts recently given to me. All from Cascadians and all quite worth while. Wikipedia (by way of the O.E.D.) says: “Chapbook is first attested in English in 1824, and seems to derive from the word...