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PAUL E NELSON

Force Field: 77 Women BC Poets

Soon after I made plans to go to Victoria, BC, for the launch of the Poems from Planet Earth anthology (see this post), I found out the launch of another anthology was happening the next day in Vancouver at the downtown library. Getting a one-way ticket on the...

Trevor Carolan – Reading BC and PNW Literature

Trev Carolan is the editor of Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature. Paul Nelson interviewed him July 15, 2011, at the Prophouse Cafe in Vancouver to talk about the book. Here is the introduction: If artists are the antennae of the race, then the...

Walking the Arboretum in Winter with Jim

Each morning I look over last year’s journal entry for the same day and it had been a year since I walked through Washington Park Arboretum with Jim Demetre. Jim’s an amateur botanist whom I met during The Long Walk in 2011, and we’ve kept in touch...

Rainforest Writing Retreat, Part 2

Tuesday, October 7, I was almost set for starting the literary portion of my writing retreat. (For my first post on the rainforest writing retreat, click here.) Side trips to the Elwha Dam removal project, Chief Seattle’s grave and the Elwha Rez (to see the...