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PAUL E NELSON

519. Needs of the Market

On this 2015 August Poetry Postcard there is photo of the Chief after whom the city I live in is named. Is there another major American city that so directly honors its indigenous heritage? If yes, comment below. The poem also riffs off the Chief’s famous speech, or...

Hallelujah, the Poetics of Music

(For Columbia City Gallery Literary Series, Dec 13, 2015) “We study the self to lose the self. Only when you forget yourself can you become one with all things.” – Dögen Some brief thoughts about my immediate take on the subject for which we are ostensibly...

Tronald Dump

I know these posts can be seen as click bait, but there is something weird and particularly USAmerican about all the fuss being made about our favorite Grandson of a Pimp and Bait-racer, Tronald Dump. #1) That with his call to have Muslims register or to ban Muslims...

518. Stankbeard

More Salish art in this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard and a reference to yet another plant species identified this summer. It really DOES smell like peanut butter, but beards are entirely different, and require a higher degree of hygiene effort that most other...

Thomas Walton’s Art Party

The man behind the award-winning Pageboy Magazine, Thomas Walton, is at it again. He sent me THIS today: Greetings, Please join PageBoy Magazine this Sunday (Dec 13) for the inaugural episode of Art Party. What it is: an art party with visual art and video by Sara...