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PAUL E NELSON

St. Paul Seattle N.30.14

It is a testament to the good of social media that an event like Seattle/St. Paul, which happened last night in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a poet I’d never met before, Mark Fleury, could happen. My policy on Facebook is to agree to a friend request if the person...

Upcoming Readings

I have been working like a dog on the Cascadia Poetry Anthology, Make It True the last few months, but the last few days especially and we’re almost done. It’s been a joy to work with Nadine Maestas, who is so bright and perceptive and understands how...

Latest American Sentences

I was looking at the stats for this website yesterday and stunned to find over 5,000 hits on American Sentences, by far the most popular thing here. Thank you for your interest. I write today to share my latest harvest of these seventeen syllable poems, a form...