by Paul Nelson | Jun 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have left a couple of browser tabs open on my mac for a couple of weeks now because of their relevance to my ongoing cultural investigation of Cascadia. Both have to do with a study by two psychology professors at the University of Maryland which used a bevy of...
by Paul Nelson | May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
I read Nine Sonnets for Pop and a few of these 17 syllable poems at my Dad’s grave today as his remains were interred at the family burial plot in Elmhurst, Illinois. My siblings shared some stories of Dad and we sang a bit of Mr. Mr. Johnny Rebeck: Oh Mr. Mr....
by Paul Nelson | May 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
My Aunt Barbara Rose O’Connell died on Super Bowl Sunday, 2007, and there were ceremonies in Glendora, California, where she lived most of her life and outside of Chicago, where she was born and raised. My Dad could not bear looking at her corpse, as he was the...
by Paul Nelson | May 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the most powerful events of the recent Cascadia Poetry Festival (Cascadia II) was the panel: Cascadian Poetics: Innovations from Here. (Video of the panel here.) Nadine Maestas facilitated with a deft touch and brought out the best in Joanne Kyger, George...
by Paul Nelson | May 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on December 27, 1928, Paul Everett Nelson Senior died today in his sleep in his home on the Northwest Side of Chicago at the age of 85. He is survived by his wife, Lesbia M.P.R. de Nelson, his children, Paul Jr, Andrew Glenn, Barbara...
