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PAUL E NELSON

91. Berber City Poems (For El Habib Louai)

It is a month after El Habib Louai visited Seattle, postcards composed during his visit are appearing on my blog and I am reliving the moments through the poems as if they are happening again. Part of what makes this satisfying is the composition method in which, as...

Deconstructing For Kurt Cobain

I had a poem published in the anthology culled from featured readers at the Planet Earth Poetry reading series in Victoria. Yvonne Blomer, the series curator and co-editor of the Poems from Planet Earth anthology yesterday wrote to contributors:  Hello poets, I hope...

Reading to Seattle City Council

I have not made much of a big deal regarding my appearance today before the Seattle City Council’s Words’ Worth program, perhaps because it was going to happen in January and then a few days ago I was asked to move my appearance up four months, so at 2...