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PAUL E NELSON

American Sentences June-Oct

The latest harvest of 17 syllable poems from my daily discipline. See more about the form at www.AmericanSentences.com and thanks for reading. Comments welcome. 6.26.14 – Driving 34 a cherry pit’s distributed every two blocks. 6.29.14 – She talks about her...

Review of PN & DB’s Existential Trio

I met Dick Metcalf last night at Rhythm & Rye in Olympia, WA, before the gig I did with Dan Blunck’s Existential Trio, featuring Steve Bentley and Ariel Calabria. He wrote a kind review that you can read here: https://rotcodzzaj.com/?page_id=5661 One...

Poetry & Music (Paul Reads with Blunck)

What does it mean when the Existential Trio is actually a quartet? What happens to poems when they are read with music backing? Do they become songs? I’ve been very fortunate to have some excellent musicians as collaborators in performance over the past 15 years...