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PAUL E NELSON

American Sentences from 2011

I have begun harvesting my American Sentences from this past year. It’s always a blast from my recent past to do this and this is eleven years now of writing one of these 17 syllable poems every day. Here is the first decent one of the year: 1.12.11 – Just...

Sam Hamill on Why Poetry Matters

I re-posted this interview on this website and it’s gotten about 200 hits and will be translated into Spanish by Hamill’s translator, Esteban Moore. An excerpt: The editor of Copper Canyon Press for over 30 years, author of over 40 books of poetry and...

Organic Poetry Essays

I’ve been migrating my Org Po essays from OrganicPoetry.org to this site. This was the introductory page to the essays on that site. Comments are welcome. A book is coming out in 2012 from Apprentice House: Organic Poetry Essays These essays were first created...

How George Bowering Writes Books

I never get tired of George Bowering. Some people say writing about writing is boring. They’re usually right, but Bowering’s writing on writing is fascinating. Take this bit excerpted from his new book How I Wrote Certain of My Books (Toronto ON: Mansfield...