It is logical that it would be a matter of time before Ella would adopt some of my better habits. All too often we're...
ATJ 57-60 Language & Lilacs
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Make It True (Poetry From Cascadia)
It is still kind of hard to believe that the second of the Cascadia poetry projects I envisioned a couple of years ago...
Pictures of Peter Culley
For Peter Culley (1958-2015)
Pig War Poetry & Pictures
Although the gathered group was small, they were feisty enough to take on the fierce winds that greeted our Guided...
ATJ 53-56 (Death of the Imagination)
I get a kick out of certain Facebook threads and, yes, probably spend too much time there. You can argue with an...
Footsteps – Call for Poems
Doug Johnson of Cave Moon Press has invited me to edit a book that will benefit homeless veterans. The call is below...
Cascadia Update
The 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival is three weeks away in Nanaimo, BC, and unlike the first two, it is in Canada and it...
Pig War Camp Walk San Juan Island
I have been invited by Mike Vouri to talk about the Pig War and my manuscript, Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia,...
Hillman City Haibun (Early Lilacs)
3.29.15 - John Olson’s right about early lilacs - March is the new April. Facebook, being what it is, is a source of...
First Quarter 2015 American Sentences
I started to harvest my American Sentences after filling up my latest pocket journal and by the time I finished that...
After The Japanese 49-52
The last three of the poems in this series written in Marblemount, WA, seem so distant given the contrast between last...
Seattle (City of No Lit Crit)
If you are involved at all in the Seattle writing community, you have no doubt heard by now about the op-ed former...