I am just back from the best and most intensive writing retreat/ residency of my life and a quick trip to L.A. to...
Morris Graves Residency Report
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Community Self Reliance (Michael Shuman)
The seeds for a bioregionalist perspective in me were planted by the late Peter Berg of the Planet Drum Foundation...
Habib Audio, Interview and Postcards
My posts on the August 2013 Seattle visit of Morrocan poet and Beat scholar El Habib Louai were quite long, (archived...
All 2013 Postcards
I have posted all my 2013 POstcard POems in one spot. See: https://wp.me/P1Xnkd-1h7. For more on the fest,...
A Little History: The Deeply Personal as Political
(This essay was recently published in Zen Monster.) (download pdf for best formatting) A Little History: The Deeply...
Brenda Hillman at Open Books, Sunday 10.27.13
Brenda Hillman reads at Open Books tomorrow at 3p and I first met her at Open Books in 2010, I think it was. She has...
93. The Fog Wet Web
Who could resist the term meteorologist Cliff Mass is using for this deeply socked-in fog situation we find ourselves...
More on Spring & All
Open Books: Poetry in Conversation, No. 1 (pdf) I’d meant to write a blog post about the first in what promises to be...
ACLU, Javier Sicilia Event
As a parent of two healthy, intelligent and beautiful daughters, I would not want to imagine the pain of having to...
32. Bear Camp Road
It has been over a year that I have been attending open mic events regularly again. I once described myself as an...
New Pageboy + Release Party
I was delighted to get the email that alerted me to the latest edition of Seattle's Best Little Magazine (according to...
How to Resist Occupying Forces
In the U.S. Federal Government shutdown, created by the power a relatively small group of Congressmen have on one of...