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Angel Hack (Haibun de la Serna #4)
Angel Hack by Paul Nelson 3 Angel Hack Never forget that it was an angel that invented swords. Ramón Gomez de la Serna...
Dragonfly Resurrection (Haibun de la Serna #31)
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/33050303"] Dragonfly Resurrection by Paul Nelson 3 Dragonfly...
American Poetry Culture & Chinese Culture Xi Chuan
Xi Chuan gave a stellar reading at the Seattle Central library on Monday, January 9, 2012. Chris Higashi was a...
49th Parallel Blues
See me read it with Jim O'Halloran on flute: https://www.facebook.com/paul.nelson/posts/165440583559985 Line breaks...
Poet Politician: The Work of Jidi Majia
It is awkward to write on this day that my country’s President, for whom I wept on Election Day 2008, is signing into...
2nd Half of 2011 American Sentences
There are still two more sentences for me to write & complete eleven years of the daily practice of writing one...
Post on Pacific Rim Poetics
For some reason, I did not get my Pacific Rim Poetics essay transferred over from OrganicPoetry.org to this here site....
American Sentences from 2011
I have begun harvesting my American Sentences from this past year. It's always a blast from my recent past to do this...
From Pablo Baler The Next Thing: Art in the 21st Century
Dear Paul: I want to keep you in the loop of an Art Book/World-class Anthology worth your attention and support. The...
Sam Hamill on Why Poetry Matters
I re-posted this interview on this website and it's gotten about 200 hits and will be translated into Spanish by...
Organic Poetry Essays
I've been migrating my Org Po essays from OrganicPoetry.org to this site. This was the introductory page to the essays...