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Rainier Beach Arts & Culture Roundtable #2

To network as neighborhood creatives, support arts and culture, improve the visibility of arts & culture in...

Cascadia Day Poetry Explosion May 18 7pm

May 18 is Cascadia Day, because it is the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.Bioregional journalist Andrew...

Interview with Deborah Poe on her Submission to Winter in America (Still

How does one make literary art about this time in history, that avoids rhetoric and facile political positioning in...

Theodore Roethke and the Birth of Cascadian Poetry

I'm honored to be giving a talk/reading on the subject of: Theodore Roethke and the Birth of Cascadian Poetry on May...

Paul E Nelson Blog

Archived Posts

Before Pigs

The opening poem from my current project: Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia. Text, with linebreaks fouled up by...

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53. Nothing Death

53. Nothing Death A kiss is nothing in brackets. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna A poem’s nothing on paper. A stellar jay’s...

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