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PAUL E NELSON

Top Ten Posts of 2013

This is a traditionally a week of looking back at the previous year and rather than present those posts from 2013 I wrote that I liked the best, I am letting my web stats program Jetpack have its say. I am not counting hits from pages like American Sentences and...

Seasonal American Sentences

The Rad Santa reading last night at Lottie’s Lounge was a huge success. Graham Isaac hosted and invited me along with three other writers, including Jocelyn McDonald, Chris Gusta and Ra’anan David and the idea was that we would read some Holiday-themed...

Jose Kozer Interview (L.A. N.13.13)

While I am not the guy who got the chance to interview José Kozer recently during his visit to Southern California, I was present as he responded to the questions of Cal State U at L.A. Ph.D. student Mike Sonksen. Kozer, as you may have heard, won the most prestigious...

Sunday Holiday Reading at Lottie’s

For years there was a popular open mic at Lottie Motts, which was a cafe in Columbia City. Now the coffee has given way to Tequila and the Angie’s crowd has migrated across the street to be served beer by Seattle’s best bartending poet/literary empresario,...