by Paul Nelson | May 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Notes on Anuncio’s Last Love Song by Nate Mackey When we last left Nate Mackey’s poetry with the book Nod House, our protagonist and his band were seeing brute sun outside the/ nod / house door. This is in the serial poem with two threads interweaving, one of which is...
by Paul Nelson | May 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I have heard much over the years about Jack Remick’s writing group. That he’s the feature of our 13th Ginsberg Marathon made me want to see how he works. A very informal gathering at 2P Tuesdays and Fridays at Louisa’s on Eastlake, there’s a...
by Paul Nelson | May 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last night (Friday, May 3, 2013) I attended the Kwame Dawes reading at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. I was invited twice to the event, the second invite coming a few days before and though I was not familiar with Dawes’ work, I decided to attend. The auditorium...
by Paul Nelson | May 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was looking at the stats for this website yesterday and stunned to find over 5,000 hits on American Sentences, by far the most popular thing here. Thank you for your interest. I write today to share my latest harvest of these seventeen syllable poems, a form...
by Paul Nelson | May 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
It doesn’t take much exposure to the work of Nate Mackey to propel me into my own poetic orbit. Perhaps as a gesture for the successful publication of an interview we did last summer, he sent a copy of his new chapbook Anuncio’s Last Love Song, published...
