I met Diane di Prima when we brought her to the old SPLAB in Auburn in November 1999. I will never forget that her...
Diane di Prima R.I.P.
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Paul E Nelson Blog
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...
9.11.2020 American Sentence
9.11.2020 - He's at the...
PEN POPO2020 Afterword (Postcards from the Pandemic)
In years past I have taken time on the 1st of September to write my POPO afterword. If felt like a ritual to end each...
Iris Cushing on David Henderson and Mary Norbert Körte
Interview with Iris Cushing on The First Books of David Henderson & Mary Korte: A Research. Recorded via Zoom,...
Prostate Cancer Update
I was asked by my local spiritual community, Subud Greater Seattle, for an update on my treatment for prostate cancer....