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PAUL E NELSON

Read/Study Mackey’s Double Trio

Read/Study Mackey’s Double Trio

If not the culmination of a 40+ year serial poetry effort by perhaps the world’s leading living practitioner of that stance toward poem making, it is a huge new hunk. Matt Trease and I look forward to digging into Nathaniel Mackey’s Double Trio twice a...
Last Year’s Pandemic Postcard (Not Yet)

Last Year’s Pandemic Postcard (Not Yet)

My practice each morning includes reading the journal entry from the same day of the previous year. For instance, today I read Monday, April 6, 2020. It was Day 24 of the Shelter-in-Place recommendation and I was already showing off designed masks: Thanks Buffy! Now...
Wild Roof Journal Interview

Wild Roof Journal Interview

I was fortunate to have been interviewed by the kind folks at Wild Roof Journal, a periodical which takes its name from a William Blake poem. We discussed the Poetry Postcard Fest, spontaneous composition and music. Click on the image to hear the audio: Thank you...
Holly J. Hughes Interview

Holly J. Hughes Interview

Holly Hughes is the author of Hold Fast, Sailing by Ravens, coauthor of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, and editor of the award-winning anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease. Her fine art chapbook, Passings,...

Mammal Grafting

I am going to post this today though I am going to release it as a “page” or doc in Week Two of my current workshops series A Sequence of Energies. There is still room in this workshop, Sunday nights in April from 4-6pm PDT. https://py.pl/1xZpuK I will...