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PAUL E NELSON

The Last of the 2012 American Sentences

It is one of the worst feelings I ever get and most poets have experienced it at one time or another. The lost poem. I remember Ed Dorn at the Spokane Library less than a year before his death talking about losing poems that were the best he’d ever written....

Help Julian Priester

Julian and his wife Nashira Priester need your help. This world class Jazz musician and his poet wife have been it with financial troubles and have lost their house. This was posted on Facebook:  (Click on the photo for the link to support the Priesters financially)....

PageBoy Magazine Interview

We’d planned to interview Thomas Walton about the publication he edits and publishes, Pageboy Magazine, as well as contributor Sierra Nelson not long before it was deemed BEST LITERARY MAGAZINE IN SEATTLE by the local alternative newsweekly, The Stranger, but...

Five Alarms Saturday, Jan 26, Greenwood

The 3rd Five Alarms Lit Crawl happens Saturday, January 26, 2013, in Greenwood, featuring: Aaron Kokorowski, Amy Billharz, Morris Stegosaurus, Aaron Kemply, Arlene Kim, Theo Dzielak, Molly Mac, Emily Wittenhagen, Queequeg, Doug Nufer, Tessa Hulls, John Burgess, David...

Anne Waldman – Vow to Poetry (2002 Interview)

Anne Waldman took time to chat in April 2002, about her book Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews and Manifestos. In the opening segment, she spoke about her obsession with lineage, legacy, the importance of articulating her poetics and making it available, as well as...