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PAUL E NELSON

Video of Coyote Guts

Greg Bem not only helped organize the uber-successful Five Alarms Lit Crawl on Friday, July 13, 2012, he performed, emceed and took video. Here is video of your humble narrator reading Coyote Guts, which appears in two manuscripts in progress: Pig War & Other...

Postcards and Five Alarms

I was preparing for my reading tonight at the Five Alarms Lit Crawl in Greenwood. (Gratitud y Gracias to Aaron Kokorowski, Greg Bem, Graham Isaac, Bryan Miller & other organizers.) The Four Hoarse Men will be performing and I have a slot myself as well. What to...

Claustrophobia 5: The Overflowing Patio

Saturday, June 23, 2012, 3:00pm Rachel Hug’s House: 4219 Letitia Av S (Lower Unit) Readers: Emily Kendal Frey, Paul Nelson, Kate Lebo I am so psyched to be reading with Emily and Kate. I hope Kate brings pie. I hope Emily brings my copy of her chapbook that I...

Paul Nelson, Doe Bay Pig War writing residency

As you might have guessed if you’ve seen the photo of my daughter Rebecca and my Mom at Doe Bay when Rebecca was about 3 (1994), I have been going to Doe Bay Resort and Retreat for many years. In fact, my first trip there was April 1991, a month before Rebecca...

Before Pigs

The opening poem from my current project: Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia. Text, with linebreaks fouled up by WordPress, is here: https://paulenelson.com/pig-war/before-pigs/