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PAUL E NELSON

Hugo House Out, Whole Foods In

Seattle had the second or third highest rent increase of cities in the U.S. in 2015 depending on how you figure it. Regardless, the housing market here is insane. Is anything sacred? No. Across the street from Seattle First Baptist Church was a perfectly suitable...

6.9.16 – American Sentence (Chicory)

I remember a former neighbor, the son of Okies who grew up in rural California, when he saw my old Black Lab Kuma eating grass, he said: “We got a grazer!” Indeed, as am I. Whether it’s hawthorne blossoms in Nanaimo during the 3rd Cascadia Poetry...

6.6.16 American Sentences

Yes, I am still writing daily American Sentences. (One a day since 1.1.01.) Jim O’Halloran and I had a gas Friday night (6.3.16) at Another Read Through in Portland on Mississippi and read June sentences from the book. Thanks to all who came to hear us and buy...

American Sentences in PDX

It will be my first reading in Portland in over ten years. Can’t remember the exact time and place of the last reading and it happens Friday, June 3 @7pm at Another Read Through in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be reading with Jim O’Halloran, the...