2016 is a good year to bury things. How many years get their own self-deprecating meme? And the notables who died this...
Bury 2016
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Ruth Lepson/Miriam Nichols on Charles Olson
Wonderful to see the review of Letters for Olson by Brooks Johnson in Hyperallergenic and just to have this book in...
Ed Varney Interview
Ed Varney is a Canadian poet, visual artist and curator who lives on Vancouver Island. I had the good fortune to...
John Olson’s Broken Justy
The essential core of any project is to open. Open, open, open. Create a state of total nakedness, an anima mundi, a...
American Sentences Reviewed
Michael Dylan Welch, who has been tracking my commitment to American Sentences for many years, made good on his...
Latin American Neo-Baroque
Senses of Distortion (Pablo Baler Interview)Conducted at Cal State University's Golden Eagle radio station on November...
How to Survive Trump? (Cascadia Knute says)
Perhaps it's vindication for suggesting Bernie Sanders was a candidate more in...
Visiting Corita
I had a vague memory of the work of Sister Corita Kent when I saw the Portland Art Museum's exhibition of her work in...
Wanda Coleman @ 70
Wanda Coleman did not live to be 70, but today would have been her 70th birthday and as I go back to her work in...
Footsteps Anthology Benefits Homeless Vets
Thanks to the tirelessness and vision of Doug Johnson, Footsteps, a poetry anthology to benefit Homeless Vets, which I...
Post-Election Blues
Two poems (or a poem and an excerpt) and a bunch of graphics come to mind today as I help friends deal with what they...
Post-Fest Thoughts
There are about a thousand things I could write about the recently concluded Cascadia Poetry Festival. That John Olson...