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For over 26 years in radio (& years after that) Paul E Nelson has conducted interviews with authors, poets and activists who understand the shift from a mechanistic ethos to one of process, partnership and interconnection and worked to better understand and practice that himself, through being a parent, a poet, a husband, a literary arts activist, essayist, gardener, Subud member and other activities.

His research on a process perspective in poetics, Organic Poetry, extends the work of poets like Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov and his daily practice of writing an American Sentence has taken a form Allen Ginsberg created to new levels.

Maleea Acker

His own poetry extends the North American West Coast tradition of the serial poem with the well-regarded book A Time Before Slaughter and the work in progress Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia.

Ramon Gomez de la Serna

With this site you can book a workshop with Paul and bring him to your community. His workshops are transformative experiences for writers of all skill levels. This site provides many resources for people interested in this work, in the spontaneous method of poetry that has been his research focus since 1995 and in his various writing and interview projects.

About Paul’s most recent collection of poetry, A Time Before Slaughter (Apprentice House, Oct ’09), Michael McClure said: “Here’s one more big hunk of the American shoulder, as Olson carved his from the North East, Nelson takes his from the Pacific North West. It’s beautiful time-space in new words.

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