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PAUL E NELSON

93. The Fog Wet Web

Who could resist the term meteorologist Cliff Mass is using for this deeply socked-in fog situation we find ourselves cutting through here in Seattle? Fogmageddon. Not me. Combine that with the beauty which seems to stand out in the fog around here AND other current...

More on Spring & All

Open Books: Poetry in Conversation, No. 1 (pdf) I’d meant to write a blog post about the first in what promises to be a very interesting series of discussions about books of modern poetry at Seattle’s all poetry bookstore, Open Books: A Poem Emporium in the...

ACLU, Javier Sicilia Event

As a parent of two healthy, intelligent and beautiful daughters, I would not want to imagine the pain of having to bury one of them. I am honored to be a part of an ACLU event  Saturday night which features a poet from Mexico who lost his own son to the drug violence...

32. Bear Camp Road

It has been over a year that I have been attending open mic events regularly again. I once described myself as an “open mic addict” but did not realize that Red Sky Poetry Theater was an exception, not the rule, regarding such events. & so faced with...

New Pageboy + Release Party

I was delighted to get the email that alerted me to the latest edition of Seattle’s Best Little Magazine (according to “The Stranger.”) That my pals Greg Bem and Nadine Maestas were in it was good enough for me to plunk down my $11 digital Yankee...