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PAUL E NELSON

Miles & Quincy Troupe & Coltrane

Delighted to be part of a stellar weekend of Jazz and Poetry in Taos, New Mexico, April 7 and 8 with featured poet Quincy Troupe! Two nights of Jazz and Poetry, the second of which I’ll emcee and read a few of my Jazz poems. On Friday morning at 8am MST I am set...

2 Anthologies: Footsteps & South Seattle Emerald

I am blessed to have work in TWO anthologies coming out in the next two weeks. The first is the South Seattle Emerald’s Emerald Reflections: A South Seattle Emerald Anthology. It comes out of the vibrant activist mind of Marcus Green, the Publisher of this...

Three Friends Carousel

I can’t begin to say how delighted I am that this interview with José Kozer I conducted in 2015 is now available as a book. I so wanted to post as much of this material as possible because it may be the most extensive interview ever conducted with the 2013...

Cascadia IV (I Did Not Build That)

I’m thinking of the controversy from an event during the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign. It’s the You Didn’t Build That notion and was the response by less conscious people about the nature of how things get done, even in (especially in) a country...

Postcards for Garcia

A follow up to the post about my recent trip to Taos, New Mexico. Amalio Madueño is community development specialist and brilliant poet of Yaqui and Tarahumara heritage. I am indebted to Amalio for the thousands of dollars of assistance he’s given to SPLAB and...