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PAUL E NELSON

Dragonfly Resurrection (Haibun de la Serna #31)

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/33050303″] Dragonfly Resurrection by Paul Nelson 3 Dragonfly Resurrection Horse flies are smudges on the air. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna Dragonflies are silent fireworks. Into the heart of a carnivore we go...
Bradner Gardens Reading, Margin Shift

Bradner Gardens Reading, Margin Shift

It might be the 56 Days of August, but I’ll take a break from writing postcards for a moment to read at two local cultural events that I’ve been part of before. Margin Shift: Friends in Poetry has been a “movable feast” for the better part of a...

Cumberland, Desolation Sound, BC

What a way to end 2016 and bring in 2017, but in a heated outdoor bathtub on the water! Bhakti and I are guests of Gary Hamilton and Adelia (Nicola) MacWilliam, as we’re working with Adelia to organize a “one-day” Cascadia Poetry Fest September 8-10,...

Morris Graves Residency Report

I am just back from the best and most intensive writing retreat/ residency of my life and a quick trip to L.A. to visit José Kozer (& his wife Guada), see Amalio Madueño, meet Pablo Baler (& some of his Cal State U at L.A. colleagues), Néstos Díaz de Villegas,...

Hold The House Sparrow (translation)

The haibun I wrote for Maleea Acker (84. Hold The House Sparrow) has been translated into Chinese. I got this yesterday from Denis Mair: Hello Paul,     Zhang Yuan, who is studying for a PhD in translation studies in Tianjin, did a Chinese version of your haibun...