One can look at one’s Twitter feed, or watch the news to understand how dark things are right now in USAmerica, but if...
Paul O Ingram, Rick Rouse (The World is About To Turn)
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Paul E Nelson Blog
(Seriality (A Workshop)
(Serialty (A Workshop) four weeks, February 7-28, 2021 via Zoom. $128.50 ($94 for Canadians) (includes paypal fee) to...
A Poet’s Obituary of Diane di Prima
Thank you Journal of the Plague Year for publishing this: My November 1999 interview with Diane di Prima:...
Priscilla Long Interview
Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based poet, writer, editor and longtime independent teacher of writing. Her new book Holy...
Diane di Prima R.I.P.
I met Diane di Prima when we brought her to the old SPLAB in Auburn in November 1999. I will never forget that her...
McClure’s 88th (A Zoom Reading/Tribute)
This is an update of the post that was used to promote the Zoom reading of the 1995 poem Dolphin Skull by Michael...
Ian Boyden Interview (A Forest of Names)
They are 108 poems that “illuminate a hidden landscape in the names of children killed in the 2008 Sichuan...
A Fly Landed
I missed out on Rattle's Poets Respond AGAIN!
The Art of the Blurb
I have been asked on occasion to write blurbs for friends and acquaintances and, like any other form of writing, it...
POPO Birthday Bounty
I'm a little stunned by the amount of birthday wishes I am getting for my 59th and it seems a perfect day to share THE...
COVID-19 Sonnet
Since the beginning of 2019 I have been writing "prose sonnets" Matt Trease calls them. 14 line prose poems often with...
Article on American Sentences
Huge thanks (again) to Tim Green of Rattle Magazine who wrote about my practice of American Sentences for The...