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PAUL E NELSON

A Journal of the Plague Years

A Journal of the Plague Years

I like to think of it as projective journalism. Maybe it’s becoming a lost art to write and publish history with deep perception hours after events happen, but Susan Zakin and her crew at Journal of the Plague Years have created an anthology that in part serves...
DaySong Miracle (Past 62) Profiled on SICA-USA

DaySong Miracle (Past 62) Profiled on SICA-USA

I was delighted to see the SICA-USA blog post written about my new book DaySong Miracle (Past 62). I knew it was coming, but to read the way my Subud brother Jim O’Halloran handled the information was beautiful. He and I have collaborated many times over the...
Memory’s Vault (book)

Memory’s Vault (book)

I had the good fortune last Sunday (May 19) to be invited to participate in a reading at Memory’s Vault to celebrate the publication of the Empty Bowl book Memory’s Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Warden. As the Literary Executor for Sam Hamill, my...
Larry Lawrence at Jack Straw

Larry Lawrence at Jack Straw

Writing a blurb for a friend or associate’s book is a difficult task. One has to be compelling, has to have some credibility regarding knowledge of the book’s content and has to have a call to act, or at least be memorable. So many blurbs today are, as one...
DaySong Miracle (Past 62)

DaySong Miracle (Past 62)

From Greg Bem in Spokane, WA: Greetings from Spokane!   I am pleased to announce the third release from Carbonation Press: Paul E. Nelson’s DaySong Miracle (Past 62).   This small book is available now in Spokane, Seattle, and via Lulu. It has been an honor and...