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PAUL E NELSON

American Sentences Handout

This site has been getting a lot of hits from people who heard about American Sentences via Kim Addonizio and her book Ordinary Genius which mentions the form and reference to the website www.AmericanSentences.com. Thanks Kim. I have not posted this handout on this...

78. Wren and Whale Surrender

78 in a series of 99 neo-barroco haibun written after Ramón Gomez de la Serna. This one inspired by E. Richard Atleo’s book Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview. The holistic way of thinking seems to be so natural in my own thought, yet I know there is much that...

Happy 84th Pop

My Dad, Paul Everett Nelson Senior, is 84 today, December 27, 2012. A few years ago I wrote a haibun that started as one of my reminiscences of a couple of our early experiences at Comiskey Park, the home of our beloved White Sox until 1990. Happy Birthday Pop! Link...