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PAUL E NELSON

Reading in Courtenay BC

Reading in Courtenay BC

Thanks to the efforts of Ed Varney, I’ll give a short reading at ARTFUL Gallery in Courtenay, BC on Sunday, August 28th at 7pm. (526C Cumberland Road.) There will be open mic and there is a suggested donation of $10. The number of poetry readings in Cascadia has...
Haibun de la Serna Published

Haibun de la Serna Published

I am delighted to announce today that a book I finished ten years ago has just been published by Koon Woon’s Goldfish Press. Haibun de la Serna is the book. It consists of 99 neo-barroco haibun all starting with an epigraph by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. The book...

Bury 2016

2016 is a good year to bury things. How many years get their own self-deprecating meme? And the notables who died this year is impressive, if you’re impressed by death: Muhammad Ali, David Bowie, Prince, Fidel Castro, Harper Lee, John Glenn, Leon Russell,...

Latin American Neo-Baroque

Senses of Distortion (Pablo Baler Interview)Conducted at Cal State University’s Golden Eagle radio station on November 14, 2016. Our thanks to Jasmine Salgado and Golden Eagle radio.) The objective of art is exactly like that of cosmology. Its aim is to...

Jose Kozer Interview (N.13.13 in L.A., Part 2)

Today I’m posting the rest of the audio of an interview with legendary Cuban-American poet José Kozer, conducted by  Cal State U at L.A. Ph.D. student Mike Sonksen. (Hear the first four parts of the interview here.) Kozer here is captured shortly after winning...