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PAUL E NELSON

Reading to Seattle City Council

I have not made much of a big deal regarding my appearance today before the Seattle City Council’s Words’ Worth program, perhaps because it was going to happen in January and then a few days ago I was asked to move my appearance up four months, so at 2...

Writing or Re-Writing

I was fascinated to see a post from one of my Facebook friends, Jim Andrews, linking to a piece in the Boston Globe about how the practice of extensive revision of one’s writing is a 20th Century and largely Modernist development. Craig Fehrman is the author of...

Organic in Cascadia (translated for Brazilians)

José Kozer has been kind enough to connect me with a Brazilian poet Francisco Dos Santos who is translating and publishing a short essay I wrote for the Convergence on Poetics symposium at UW Bothell last September (2012). The essay is called Organic in Cascadia: A...

Haibun de la Serna

Finishing the 83rd poem in a series of 99 haibun on Monday morning, Meredith had overheard me recording the poem and informed me I was “almost finished” with the series I have been working on for almost four years, Haibun de la Serna. My friend Amalio...