Background
Nelson, P. Gale was born on March 18, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Donn Karl and Temple Elizabeth Nelson.
(Poetry. Like some of the poets these poems are dedicated ...)
Poetry. Like some of the poets these poems are dedicated to (Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop, Peter Gizzi) Gale Nelson's work has helped reinvent American lyricism. Sometimes veering close to Keith Waldrop's highly atomistic poems, CETERIS PARIBUS uses formal variety (space between lines, contrasts in tone, shifts between the poetic lines and prose-like fragments) to echo the equally-broad world of his poetic concerns: She became a / person on a crusade, a Johnny Appleseed for height . . .
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Nelson, P. Gale was born on March 18, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Donn Karl and Temple Elizabeth Nelson.
Bachelor, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, 1983. AM, Brown University, 1988.
Coordinator writing Brown University, Providence, 1990-1993, acting assistant director writing, 1993, assistant director writing and lecturer English, since 1994. Editor Paradigm Press, Providence, since 1988.
(Poetry. Like some of the poets these poems are dedicated ...)
Chair Philbrick Poetry Prize committee Providence Athenaeum, 1998-2003.
Married Lori Ann Baker, October 12, 1991.