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PAUL E NELSON

2012 American Sentences (so far)

So, I found my pocket journal that went from October 13, 2011 to January 17, 2012. It was a scary moment when I couldn’t find it for various reasons. I do not want to think about how a lost journal would have imperiled the early harvest of American Sentences....

Personal Mythology in Poetry

By the time you read this, I will have likely performed as part of the 2nd piece of the Four Hoarse Men SOundPO project. (See video of the first project here.) Although due to scheduling we’re three tonight, Greg Bem, Jason Conger and I are utilizing Personal...

Poems published, Slaughter video

Things are getting close to critical here on the Nelson home front, with Ella Roque due on March 10 and the Cascadia Poetry Festival coming up March 23-25.We could use more registrations for that event and with the lineup we have, $50 for a complete weekend gold pass...

57. Frog Song

After Susan Point’s Nowhere Left. 2000 https://www.mister-toad.com/PacificTreeFrog.html Ghetto – 1605–15;  < Italian,  orig. the name of an island near Venice where Jews were forced to reside in the 16th century < Venetian,  literally, foundry for...

Stellar (Ella) (a Haibun)

Ships sail so far away, even farther, that their smoke is no more than the distant signal of a marine volcano. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna & further still the cosmos. & in the cosmos the soul that would be Ella. (Stellar). She. Her. No podemos hacerlo sin Ella....