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PAUL E NELSON

Rob Lewis and The Silence of Vanishing Things

Is a planetary ecological collapse underway? Yep. Does anyone care? At least Rob Lewis does. He wrote a book of poems and essays about the climate crisis and suggests that a shift away from scientific terminology toward a more poetic/sacred narrative is necessary. The...

Bay Area Postcard Readings!

The launch of 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards, an anthology that was ten years in the making is finally happening in the Bay Area THIS WEEKEND! Ina Roy-Faderman has worked tirelessly to help create this book and set up these readings and I am looking forward to...

Ellensburg Poetry Prowl

I am delighted to be part of the Ellensburg Poetry Prowl, April 7, 2018, in downtown Goatburg. (Does anyone call it that anymore?) A tribute to Langston Hughes, there are three days of events, but my participation is featured: 4-4:45pm: •Gallery One, 408 N Pearl...

Lewis MacAdams Interview

In the effort to catalog all the programs done during the days in which I syndicated a weekly public affairs radio program, the latest gem I have re-discovered is a 2001 interview with poet Lewis MacAdams.   The original listing for the hour version of the...